protective coloration in a sentence
Examples
- Perafan's modest demeanor, cosmetic surgery and hair transplants provided him with protective coloration for a man on the run.
- He is credited with inventing the term aposematism for warning coloration, as well as for his experiments on'protective coloration'( camouflage ).
- As a camouflage expert during the Second World War, Cott likened the functions of military camouflage to those of protective coloration in nature.
- Settle was never interested in the lies of the grown-ups, their sentiment and sentimentality, in their protective colorations, stiff and ironclad as armor, of gentility.
- Chapter 1 sets out the " long-ignored laws " of " protective coloration ", an act which " has waited for an artist " to perceive.
- We're obsessed with them, so to see them on a stage, potent and eloquent but with the protective coloration that the past always supplies, is astonishingly cathartic.
- They are masters of camouflage and make use of protective coloration to blend in with the fire in the region to blend in with the fire ravaged landscape.
- Mantids are masters of camouflage and make use of protective coloration to blend in with the foliage, both to avoid predators themselves, and to better snare their victims.
- By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala . ( Counterpoint, $ 25 . ) Stories by a spellbinding urban fabulist, concerning divided souls, people whose protective coloration belies their inner longings, in two great cities.
- The House vote approving the inquiry had a slight protective coloration of bipartisanship, with 31 Democrats voting with the Republicans, in fear, perhaps, of being demagogued as blatantly tolerant of the president's transgressions.