BLUES in a Sentence
Learn BLUES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
316 example sentences for BLUES, such as:
1. True blue will never stain.
2. He had a bad case of the blues.
3. Among the trees I caught a glint of blue.
4. A blue wisp of cigarette smoke curled in the air.
5. The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
2. He had a bad case of the blues.
3. Among the trees I caught a glint of blue.
4. A blue wisp of cigarette smoke curled in the air.
5. The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of BLUES
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blues
n. a state of depression
n. a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Nothing moved except the gliding carriages, and the people were small and wooden, spots in a picture drenched with gold and hard bright blues.
2 His face cleared at once, and he took three reds and three blues.
3 The crude reds and greens and blues of that coloured glass held us there.
4 "O, come, Marie, you've got the blues, this morning," said St. Clare.
5 The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
6 Here and there a star pricked through, showing behind it a deep well of blue.
7 Slowly the rim of the rainy vapours caught fire and burnt away, and a pure moon swung into the blue.
8 The lane passed into a pine-wood with boles reddening in the afternoon sun and delicate blue shadows on the snow.
9 An hour later when the conversation began to lag, Gerald, with a guile that belied the wide innocence of his bright blue eyes, proposed a game.
10 Gerald's sharp blue eyes noticed how efficiently his neighbors' houses were run and with what ease the smooth-haired wives in rustling skirts managed their servants.
11 The day was warm for April and the golden sunlight streamed brilliantly into Scarlett's room through the blue curtains of the wide windows.
12 And everywhere amid the greenery, on flags and bunting, blazed the bright stars of the Confederacy on their background of red and blue.
13 From it she took a pack of letters tied together with a blue ribbon, addressed in Ashley's hand to Melanie.
14 About the blue cloth, when it comes to a choice between having holes in your britches or patching them with pieces of a captured Yankee uniform--well, there just isn't any choice.
15 He had so many hats, wide Panamas for summer, tall beavers for formal occasions, hunting hats, slouch hats of tan and black and blue.
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1 He melded country music with blues to create rock and roll.
2 Most pop music is influenced, to a greater or lesser degree, by the blues.
3 It seems important to sensitize people to the fact that depression is more than the blues.
4 All modern popular music has an umbilical cord link back to blues and R and B.
5 Rock 'n' roll music was largely co-opted from the blues.
6 An exuberant player with attractive tones on both tenor and alto, Red Holloway is also a humorous blues singer.
7 He had a bad case of the blues.
8 A blue wisp of cigarette smoke curled in the air.
9 I am cought between the devil and the deep blue sea.
10 Among the trees I caught a glint of blue.
11 The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
12 It will be more beautiful if you work some blue into the rug.
13 The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
14 This kind of remark is guaranteed to light the blue touch paper with some Labour politicians.
15 True blue will never stain.