On this page you'll find 8 example sentences with Colorant. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Colorant meaning
Alternative spelling of colourant.
Using Colorant
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of colourant.
- In the example corpus, colorant often appears in combinations such as: the colorant, colorant in, as colorant.
Context around Colorant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Colorant
- In this selection, "colorant" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 18.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, natural and yellow stand out and add context to how "colorant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a natural colorant in foods and a yellow colorant. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "colorant" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with colorant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Saffron or turmeric are sometimes added as a yellow colorant. (10 words)
It is used as a colorant for food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. (11 words)
It is mostly used as a natural colorant in foods and drinks. (12 words)
Process yellow is based on a colorant that reflects the preponderance of red and green light, and absorbs most blue light, as in the reflectance spectra shown in the figure on the lower right. (34 words)
Turkey red used madder as the colorant, but the process was longer and more complicated, involving multiple soaking of the fabrics in lye, olive oil, sheep's dung, and other ingredients. (31 words)
Its main industrial uses are as a colorant for lacquers and varnishes and in marker-pen inks. (17 words)
Example sentences (8)
It is mostly used as a natural colorant in foods and drinks.
It duplicated the colorant in the madder plant, but was cheaper and longer lasting.
It is used as a colorant for food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.
Its main industrial uses are as a colorant for lacquers and varnishes and in marker-pen inks.
Process yellow is based on a colorant that reflects the preponderance of red and green light, and absorbs most blue light, as in the reflectance spectra shown in the figure on the lower right.
Saffron or turmeric are sometimes added as a yellow colorant.
The inks involved are usually water-based and use either pigments or dyes as the colorant.
Turkey red used madder as the colorant, but the process was longer and more complicated, involving multiple soaking of the fabrics in lye, olive oil, sheep's dung, and other ingredients.
Common combinations with colorant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the colorant 3×
- colorant in 2×
- as colorant 2×
- colorant for 2×