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Example sentences for "blues"

Lexicographically close words:
bluejays; blueness; blueprint; blueprints; bluer; blueskins; bluest; bluestem; bluestocking; bluestone
  1. She lapsed into the blues one afternoon--almost cried--she could scarcely say why.

  2. He paused, looking at the spacious rug, which was of warm blues and creams, and at the gilt ormolu bed.

  3. In certain species the central parts only are coloured, showing brilliant reds and yellows, blues or violets, the rest being colourless.

  4. No race of the hybrid character can be established: blues always produce blacks and whites, as well as blues.

  5. Their blacks and whites each breed true, their blues repeat the history of the preceding blues.

  6. In the Anecdotes, he speaks again, and more fully, of the excesses committed by the blues under the protection of Justinian.

  7. If it weren't for you, I'd have a precious good right to be in the blues too.

  8. Hullo," said Percy, in the path before him, "you in the blues too!

  9. As the black clouds gather in the east, the blues and the greens disappear, and the Lake turns to black, reflecting the wrath of the clouds above.

  10. I would not write a line for her, and no the blues have quite excommunicated me.

  11. The Blues have took most of it already," wailed the boy.

  12. Watch at the turn," he ordered; "he may come back or send some of the Blues to take us.

  13. Roquefort and other Blues are excellent fillings for your favorite vegetable stalk, or scooped-out dill pickle.

  14. Bleu de Salers France A variety of Bleu d'Auvergne from the same province distinguished for its blues that are green.

  15. We've naturalized Scandinavian Blues and smoked browns and baptized our own Saaland Pfarr in native whiskey.

  16. Danish Blues are popular and splendidly made, such as "Flower of Denmark.

  17. The Blues that Are Green Stilton, Roquefort and Gorgonzola form the triumvirate that rules a world of lesser Blues.

  18. This makes a French trio of Blues with Septmoncel and Gex, all three of which are made with the three usual milks mixed: cow, goat and sheep.

  19. Gorgonzola Gorgonzola, least pretentious of the Blues triumvirate (including Roquefort and Stilton) is nonetheless by common consent monarch of all other Blues from Argentina to Denmark.

  20. Of English Blues there are several celebrities beside Stilton and Cheshire Stilton.

  21. A full-flavored ambassador of the big international Blues family, that are green in spite of their name.

  22. The best we can do in this slight summary is to mention a few of the most notable, aside from our own Blues of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oregon and other states that major in cheese.

  23. In almost every, land where cheese is made you can sample a handful of lesser Blues and imitations of the invincible three and try to classify them, until you're blue in the face.

  24. We begin our list with a partial roll call of the big Blues family and end it with members of the monastic order of Port-Salut Trappist that includes Canadian Oka and our own Kentucky thoroughbred.

  25. The Blues roared their delight as they saw their champion start out to overtake the flyers, now so far in front, and even the followers of the other candidates joined generously in the applause.

  26. Fortune was kind to the Blues that day and their number was hoisted more than once on the bulletin board.

  27. It was a jolly party that took the special train of the Blues back to college.

  28. A last slap on the shoulder from Dick, a word of caution from Reddy, a howl of welcome from the Blues as he came in sight, and he trotted to the starting line where forty more were gathered.

  29. The Blues tried to sing, but in their excitement they could only yell.

  30. A genuine source of blues is disappointment in one's self.

  31. I do not reason away her troubles: I only remind her of Abraham Lincoln's remedy for the blues (and he knew well what they were).

  32. He's had to send the military away--anyways, the Blues who killed the lad last night on the Pithay.

  33. An hour later he rode in with the Fourteenth and heard the Blues welcomed with thanksgiving, in the very streets which had stoned them from the city twenty-four hours before.

  34. With that, they exchanged looks and laughed, and the little blues joined in, a mood caught even by the canaries--in their chirping way.

  35. Picture the scene: the old man trembling and hoisting himself up, the little blues clinging to his chair, Mamette puffing and blowing behind him, her arms outstretched.

  36. She's got the blues to-day," said her mother.

  37. Now and then a pale flicker of sunlight brightened the whole scene with blues and greens and shadows spectacularly clear; then the clouds met again, and the wind sang like a snapped wire.

  38. And she added, giving Julia a shamefaced grin, "I've got the blues to-night.

  39. At a German railway station waiting-room I noticed an effective adaptation of this principle as a wall decoration in two blues upon a stone colour (see illustration, p.

  40. There are no blacks or blues in my brain,' exclaimed Monkey, 'but Jimbo's always got some on his face.

  41. Their sentences came both together, and their blues and yellows swam into each other and made a lovely green.

  42. Clear blues, with perhaps the exception of the darkest blues and Copenhagen, are not very satisfactory for borders.

  43. Browns go well with nearly all colors, but not as well with greens and blues as with some others.

  44. He pointed to it where it lay a little way out--a big boat with the bright brown sails that make such brilliant splashes of colour in the surrounding blues and whites.

  45. But however much we may admire, we do not experience that intimate and tender feeling which the blues and reds inspire in us; in other words, the yellow flower has not the expression which distinguishes those of other colours.

  46. It does in my case I know, and I can feel the different blues of skies and air and distance in flower blue.

  47. Pinkey agreed amiably and added: "You'll prob'ly have the blues for a week after.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anthem; ballad; blues; canticle; cat; chant; dejection; depression; dirge; ditty; doldrums; dumps; ennui; gloom; languor; lassitude; lay; lied; lilt; melancholy; mumps; sadness; serenade; song; suds; sulks; unhappiness; uniform