Clouds sailed, painting sky with beauty.

Meaning: This sentence describes a scene where clouds were moving across the sky and creating a beautiful pattern with their shapes and colors.

Choice of Words: Clouds are white or gray masses of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air. Sailed is used figuratively to describe the way the clouds moved across the sky. Painting is used figuratively to describe how the clouds created a beautiful pattern in the sky. With indicates the instrument or means used to do something. Beauty is a quality that gives pleasure to the senses.

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Fluffy clouds drifted, turning the sky into a colorful canvas.

Meaning: The soft and fluffy clouds are moving slowly across the sky, creating a beautiful and colorful scene.

Choice of Words: Fluffy: These clouds are soft and have a lot of volume, like cotton candy. Drifted: When something drifts, it moves slowly and gently in the air. Canvas: When you paint, you use a canvas to hold the paint. Here, the sky is like a canvas, and the clouds are like the paint.

The sky wore a coat of white, adorned with streaks of pink and orange.

Meaning: The sky is covered in white clouds, and the clouds have streaks of pink and orange colors, making the sky look beautiful.

Choice of Words: Coat: A coat is a piece of clothing that covers your body. Here, the clouds are like a coat that covers the sky. Adorned: When you adorn something, you add something to it to make it look more beautiful. Here, the pink and orange colors are adorning the clouds.

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