lend colour to something BrE
lend color to something AmE

Hers looked fresh and wet, lending color to her face.

Gone were the bright feathers and paint that had once lent it color.

"These will lend color to the suggestion," he added, in explanation.

Two incidents which lend color to my conviction occurred some ten years after his marriage.

These flakes themselves lend color, along with colorant within the glass base.

The green leaves lend color as well as taste and texture to the soup.

The addition of vegetables and herbs lends color and texture.

In theory, this should lend color and immediacy to what, admittedly, can be less than riveting material.

The fact that it was retreating from the scene of battle lent colour to this hypothesis.

It was a thoroughly Japanese idea, except perhaps for the yellow nasturtium blossom, added to lend color.