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Example sentences for "blueish"

Lexicographically close words:
bluecoats; blued; bluefish; bluegrass; blueing; bluejacket; bluejackets; bluejay; bluejays; blueness
  1. Spirit of wine burns with a blueish flame.

  2. An orange margin runs along the exterior edge, intersected by the blue tendons; and above it are several triangular marks of a faint orange, on a blueish hazel ground, which deadens as it approaches the margin.

  3. His face was one mass of freckles; his eyes were of a pinkish hue; his eyebrows and lashes were white; and his large teeth glittered like dominoes between his thick and blueish lips.

  4. This phantom was dressed in a blueish robe, and had bright hair; and the countenance shone like the clearest red and white crystal.

  5. One is directly in the fresh pine and birch forests, thence to the lake and to the distant blueish mountain sides near Zäther.

  6. Castile soap is pure soda soap, and the blueish or red mottled appearance is produced by stirring in some sulphate of iron (green vitriol); when new it is of a blueish color, but gets red by exposure to the air.

  7. The starch sold in this country is colored blueish by smalt or indigo; but on the continent is used of its natural white color.

  8. This has broad leaves set at the great red joint of the stalks; with semicircular blackish marks on them, usually either blueish or whitish, with such like seed following.

  9. You will not lose one particle of your beauty in that time: on the contrary, you will recover your wonted hues of health--for your cheeks are somewhat pale this evening, and there is a blueish tint around your eyes.

  10. Just as you choose, my tulip,” said Rily, calmly puffing away and contemplating the thin blueish vapour which curled lazily from the bowl of his pipe out of the window.

  11. It was attended with a strong smell of sulphur, and the stones were of a blueish color, some of them weighing one hundred pounds weight.

  12. Herculis is a beautiful double star: the two bodies are apparently unequal: the largest is red, and the smallest of a blueish color inclining to green.

  13. Lead is of a blueish white color, scarcely sonorous, unelastic, and, being the softest of all metals, yields readily to the hammer.

  14. Iron is of a livid blueish color, and one of the hardest and most elastic of all metals.

  15. When broken, it appears of a shining blueish white; and when exposed to the air, becomes covered with a pellicle which reflects various colors.

  16. At the ordinary temperature of the atmosphere, it commonly appears in the form of blueish black crystalline scales, such as you see in this tube.

  17. You see that it burns with a faint blueish flame; and as I invert over it this receiver, white fumes arise from the sulphur, and fill the vessel.

  18. These all incline to a soft, delicate gray, sometimes with a blueish cast.

  19. Its leaves are a blueish green which make a pleasing contrast with the coral color of the flower.

  20. The setting rays, that tinged their snowy summits with a roseate hue, touched their lower points with various colouring, while the blueish tint, that pervaded their shadowy recesses, gave the strength of contrast to the splendour of light.

  21. The blossoms which this plant first puts forth are of a lively red, in a few days they become of a blueish purple colour; to this variety of hues the plant owes its chief beauty.

  22. It has a lofty square Castle with towers and battlements, still in tolerable preservation as far as regards the walls, which are of a blueish stone and of very good workmanship.

  23. It is built of blueish stone, with arches principally Gothic.

  24. This ravine runs through a system of sandstone hills, of a blueish muddy aspect, and red clayey earth, often conglomerate.

  25. One street which occupies a portion of the river bank, is inhabited by Chinese, and contains about 100 houses; these are built of unburnt brick, and have a peculiar blueish appearance; none are of any size.

  26. They are very greedy, of a blueish grey colour, occasionally inclining to red; the feelers are in some forked: they have no scales.

  27. His imposing side whiskers and moustache left bare a full sensuous mouth and a plump weak chin; his blueish eyes gave forth suggestions of melancholy and anguish.

  28. The man with the blueish complexion interrupted him.

  29. Now and again a clump of trees in the distance would fall apart to show the snow-crested top of a distant hill and the blueish haze of the horizon-line.

  30. In the middle, near the optic nerve, it looked red from the number of blood-vessels, but the sides were of a blueish black.

  31. Very near Hernosand, in the territories of the bishopric, I picked up a number of Chrysomelas of a blueish green and gold.

  32. Some plants had white flowers, tipped with a blueish hue; the others bore entirely purple blossoms.

  33. Of the blueish Appearance of remote Objects in a Landscape.

  34. What Greens will appear most of a blueish Cast.

  35. The smoke, thus mixing with the dusty air, forms a kind of dark cloud, at the top of which it is distinguished from the dust by a blueish cast, the dust retaining more of its natural colour.

  36. Why the Shadows of Bodies upon a white Wall are blueish towards the Evening.

  37. We often see a white object with red lights, and the shades of a blueish cast; this we observe particularly in mountains covered with snow, at sun-set, when the effulgence of its rays makes the horizon appear all on fire.

  38. Why the Shadows of Bodies upon a white Wall are blueish towards Evening.

  39. The eye is light blue, the upper mandible of a blueish shade, the lower mandible reddish horn colour, and the feet bright red.

  40. The female and young are blueish grey upon the head, throat, and breast.

  41. The eggs are pale blueish green, marked here and there with light brown spots.

  42. Its plumage is short, glossy, and uniformly black; the eyes of the old birds are brown, those of the young blueish black, and those of the nestlings pale grey.

  43. The eyes are dark brown, and the plumage of an uniform glossy blueish black.

  44. The mantle of the male bird is brown, striped with black, the top of the head blueish grey, edged at its sides with deep chestnut.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blueish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.