BLUE in a Sentence

Learn BLUE 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 BLUE, such as:
1. True blue will never stain.
2. He is in his better blue clothes.
3. Among the trees I caught a glint of blue.
4. A blue wisp of cigarette smoke curled in the air.
5. He had on a blue and white checked shirt and jeans.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BLUE
blue
 n.  blue clothing
 n.  the sky as viewed during daylight
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  Here and there a star pricked through, showing behind it a deep well of blue.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Slowly the rim of the rainy vapours caught fire and burnt away, and a pure moon swung into the blue.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  The lane passed into a pine-wood with boles reddening in the afternoon sun and delicate blue shadows on the snow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  The day was warm for April and the golden sunlight streamed brilliantly into Scarlett's room through the blue curtains of the wide windows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  And everywhere amid the greenery, on flags and bunting, blazed the bright stars of the Confederacy on their background of red and blue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  From it she took a pack of letters tied together with a blue ribbon, addressed in Ashley's hand to Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  He had so many hats, wide Panamas for summer, tall beavers for formal occasions, hunting hats, slouch hats of tan and black and blue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  Rhett Butler had brought her a yellow shawl from Havana several months before, a shawl gaudily embroidered with birds and flowers in magenta and blue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  On came the blue lines, relentlessly, like a monster serpent, coiling, striking venomously, drawing its injured lengths back, but always striking again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  He assaulted the Yankees fiercely at Peachtree Creek, hurling his men from their rifle pits against the blue lines where Sherman's men outnumbered him more than two to one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  No one knew anything except that thousands of soldiers, gray and blue, were somewhere between Atlanta and Jonesboro.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  A blue wisp of cigarette smoke curled in the air.
2  I am cought between the devil and the deep blue sea.
3  Among the trees I caught a glint of blue.
4  The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
5  It will be more beautiful if you work some blue into the rug.
6  The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
7  This kind of remark is guaranteed to light the blue touch paper with some Labour politicians.
8  True blue will never stain.
9  The town police wear dark blue uniforms and flat caps.
10  She was wearing dark blue pants and a white sweater.
11  These shirts come in three different colours: white, pale blue and khaki.
12  He had on a blue and white checked shirt and jeans.
13  He is in his better blue clothes.
14  The weather there can be a bit unpredictable - one minute it's blue skies and the next minute it's pouring down.
15  The collision between reality and faith to our young black and blue.