www.use-in-a-sentence.com
English words and Examples of Usage
Example
Sentences for "blues "
I have the blues today.
Janis Joplin once suggested that audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
The painting featured brilliant reds and blues and was quite striking.
The song was written by an obscure blues singer in the 1920s, and didn't become a hit until the 1980s.
Nor does Yellow Oker, though laid never so thick, produce the colour of Vermilion, nor though it be temper'd with Black, does it at all make a Red; nay, though it be temper'd with White, it will not afford a fainter kind of Yellow, such as masticut, but onely a whiten'd Yellow; nor will the Blues be diluted or deepned after the manner I speak of, as Indico will never afford so fine a Blue as Ultramarine or Bise; nor will it, temper'd with Vermilion, ever afford a Green, though each of them be never so much temper'd with white.
Thus several of the Blues may be diluted, as Smalt and Bise; and Masticut, which is Yellow, may be made more faint: And even Vermilion it self may, by too much grinding, be brought to the colour of Red-lead, which is but an Orange colour, which is confest by all to be very much upon the Yellow.
Their Blues are several kinds of Smalts, and Verditures, and Bise, and Ultramarine, and Indico, which last has many dirty or dark parts intermixt with it.
Now, though I was not able to see those hairs at all transparent by a common light, yet by looking on them against the Sun, I found them to be ting'd with a darkish red colour, nothing a-kin to the curious and lovely greens and blues they exhibited.
These are the predominating gradations, but there are occasional blues and mineral greens, passing into olive, but no pure or chlorophyllous green.
But the stones to which they had recourse for their favourite blues and greens were rare, and they were therefore the more ready to find a cheaper substitute in glass.
Indeed in the case of porcelain and fayence, the blues obtained from copper have always been confined to various shades of turquoise, as in the well-known glazes and enamels of the Chinese and the French, and even these turquoise blues, always, as we have said, containing lime and soda as well as copper, have only been produced with great difficulty.
On some little amphoræ from Southern Italy the chevrons are of a manganese purple on a white translucent ground-this colour appears never to be combined with the more frequent blues and yellows.
I'll tell you how, one way and another, the blues have got to be too many for me.
'" The Red Thread Blues 25 The vitality of living labor Confronts the dead power of capitalist command I say autonomist theory contrasts the vitality of living labor With the dead power of capitalist command The working people historically assert their power to take the structures in their hands.
Hip-hop and rhythm and blues are the most popular requests, and if the shop does not already have the song, no problem.
57 more results not shown.
>>>>>>> GO TO ADVANCED VOCABULARY TESTS <<<<<<
English Jokes
Newspapers
After-life Issues
Funny Videos
Academic English Words List and Example
Sentences
Example sentences with the blues , a sentence example for blues , and
how
to make blues in sample sentence, Synonyms and Collocations for blues
how do I use the word blues in a sentence? How do you spell blues in a
sentence? spelling of blues
Search
Example Sentences for any English Word here ....
Translate
Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning
Longman Dictionary Meaning
Macmillan Dictionary
Meaning
Oxford Dictionary Meaning
Collocations
Synonyms
Share on Facebook