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black-and-blue

ADJECTIVE
  1. discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
    beaten black and blue
    livid bruises

How To Use black-and-blue In A Sentence

  • But there were always emergencies, and the Alcott girls had to know what to put on a black-and-blue spot, and why the jelly failed to "jell," and how to hang a skirt, and bake a cake, and iron a table-cloth. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
  • Head lifeguard Jason Brooks orders nothing but the black-and-blue ahi.
  • He could not make out the faint black-and-blue world beneath the daylight. DEAD LINES
  • And for many a day the young lady, scared at least out of a portion of her young ladyhood, bore on her arms and shoulders and wrists divers black-and-blue bruises – tokens of caresses which he had bestowed in all fond gentleness but too late at night. When the World Was Young
  • Don't know as well black-and-blue on that day have much hateful, incredibly led so long, can also penetrate scar formation.
  • When Simon Nishikanta, huge and gross as in the flesh he was and for ever painting delicate, insipid, feministic water - colours, when he threw his deck-chair at Scraps for clumsily knocking over his easel, he found the ham-like hand of Grimshaw so instant and heavy on his shoulder as to whirl him half about, almost fling him to the deck, and leave him lame-muscled and black-and-blued for days. CHAPTER XI
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