they argued the merits of dull-coloured uniforms to reduce visibility in the desert
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The dull-colored naturalistic painting style of his early years was replaced by the use of brilliant colors painted with small, rapidly painted brushstrokes.
Wearing dull-coloured clothes enables trekkers to watch birds and animals without disturbing them.
It was a linen bag which contained within it a mass of old rusted and discolored metal and several dull-colored pieces of pebble or glass.
The images include 600 small, dull-colored views of signs and graffiti in the artist's neighborhood.
While others argued the merits of dull-coloured uniforms to reduce visibility in the desert, the very idea evinced a howl of protest from Everson.
We changed into dull-coloured clothes.
Think before you kick what appears to be a dull-coloured round stone - it could be a hand grenade with a rusted pin.
Few of us notice the day-flying adult or the tiny, dull-colored eggs it lays.
In the case of the arctic-nesting red phalarope, the female deserts her smaller, dull-colored mate as soon as the clutch of eggs is complete.
He held the slender, dull-colored metallic band toward the boy.
Vincetoxicum rossicurn has flat, regular dull-colored flowers and open nectar, characteristic of fly-pollinated plants.
Some brightly colored male birds may molt twice a year, becoming dull-colored with the first molt and brightly colored with the second molt.
Dull-coloured and pungent-smelling, kiwis had a sporting chance against their original predators, such as the extinct Haast giant eagle.
Brightly colored male house finches provided more food for their offspring and therefore seemed to be better foragers than dull-colored males.
It has a very friendly atmosphere, and the scenery is a refreshing change from the typical concrete and dull-coloured buildings.
It resembles a furtive, dull-coloured mouse, scuttling up a tree.
In most waterfowl and songbirds, males and females have similar plumages in the nonbreeding season but, before the onset of breeding, males molt into a brightly colored plumage while females remain dull-colored.