How To Use Sky-blue In A Sentence
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I was walking to my seat at a basketball game my freshman year and noticed a cute guy with sky-blue eyes watching me.
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On the way from the airport to the hotel I spotted hundreds of sky-blue flowers (about the size of bindweed flowers) on ground-hugging plants - seemingly wild - on the side of the highway.
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Her silk shirtdress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.
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I was walking to my seat at a basketball game my freshman year and noticed a cute guy with sky-blue eyes watching me.
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She turned down the offer of a bolt of sky-blue silk imported from Tesk, a second horse, a purse of silver.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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Now, how sorry we feel for those other globe trotters on the launch, birring along behind a hot, bubbling, puffing, steam kettle -- and so crowded, and in this heat too, whilst we extend at our ease in a white and sky-blue boat, with pink cushions, and dreamily listen to the silky frou frou of the southern sea.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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Scillas bring the sky-blue color down to earth under flowering pear trees and forsythias, as hyacinths underplanted with pansies welcome visitors.
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My first up-close and personal moments with alternating current started on the day I plugged in my slightly used, sky-blue, single-pickup Hohner electric guitar.
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The other woman, Grace, is wearing a long coat patched together out of sky-blue velvet and emerald silk and ivory lace and embroidered upholstery fabric.
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Around her neck was a string of white pearls; her silk shirtdress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.
DANSVILLE
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The star consists of the Cross of Saint Patrick Gules, on a field argent, charged with a trefoil as on the Badge, surrounded by a sky-blue enamelled circle.
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She flicked through the dresses until a sky-blue halter neck dress caught her eye.
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I have not wooed in earnest," he said carelessly, and hitched forward his cloak of sky-blue tuftaffeta with an air.
To Have and to Hold
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Parents were ashamed that never were ashamed before until the kind satirist laughed at them; relatives were frightened; scores of little scholars were taken away; poor schoolmasters had to shut their shops up; every pedagog was voted a Squeers, and many suffered, no doubt unjustly; but afterward, schoolboys backs were not so much caned; schoolboys meat was less tough and more plentiful; and schoolboys milk was not so sky-blue.
On Charity and Humor
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She wore a clean brown vest and a short-sleeved sky-blue blouse, neither of which Dolan had seen before in his life.
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For the doctor visit, Mother wears plastic Shasta daisies clipped to her small ears and her shirtwaist dress is sky-blue like her eyes and eye shadow.
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It occurs as sky-blue acicular crystals associated with hydrozincite and hemimorphite at the Billy Springs mine near Mount Fitton, and at the Mount Malvern mine, Clarendon, South Australia.
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The message, in white lettering on a sky-blue background, is nonconfrontational by design.
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Pfizer named its golden goose Viagra and packaged it in a rhomboid, sky-blue pill that became as iconic as the twin arches of a certain burger franchise.
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When the sky reveals the sky-blue dawn, I arrive here, stir my silver-white spray and his golden yellow sand grains together and use my moisture content to scatter the summer heat in his heart.
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I spent the day admiring the mud-brick mini-skyscrapers of the Hadhramauti towns, with their wooden latticework and sky-blue window frames.
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Volunteer divers collect ink from snails off the coast of Israel and produce sky-blue tekhelet to dye string that is woven into the ritual prayer tassels known as tzitzit, hoping to reclaim an ancient tradition.
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Or walk past the border and you're in South Africa, as the sky-blue agapanthus nod their high frilly heads in the sun.
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And there have been more black beetles in Vendale since than ever were known before; all, of course, owing to Tom's having blacked the original papa of them all, just as he was setting off to be married, with a sky-blue coat and scarlet leggings, as smart as a gardener's dog with a polyanthus in his mouth.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
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One of its real finds, however, is a side-street jewel in the heart of the old town called the Hotel Byron, all bleached peach walls and sky-blue shutters built over the dome of a Turkish hammam.
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Miss Delany tripped past me in her sky-blue tights to hold the audience spellbound with her jugglery, and spin plates and throw glittering knives until the satiated people turned to welcome Horan and his "cogged" dumbbells and clubs.
The Maids of Paradise
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He thought about it for a while, staring through me with those sky-blue eyes.
FOOLS GOLD
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Who of that fierce company brought the trooper to his end we never knew, but when M'Iver and I got down to the level he was dead as knives could make him, and his horse, more mad than ever, was disappearing over a mossy moor with a sky-blue lochan in the midst of it.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face.
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The trick is that they're also a great foil for playful accessories in lemon yellow, tangerine, fuchsia, red, or sky-blue.
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There was also a cope of exquisite grey silk on which was woven a female figure with buskined legs, wearing a short sky-blue tunic and the red Phrygian cap.
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Eugenia (Eugenia Malaccensis), and the pandanus, with its aerial roots, all looped together by large sky-blue convolvuli and the running fern, and is marvellous with parasitic growths.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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One such painting was a small, sky-blue tondo with two rough vertical white lines descending partway from the top.
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Around her neck was a string of white pearls; her silk shirtdress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.
DANSVILLE
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The costume of an Amazonian crest and plume, a tucked-up vest, and a tight buskin of sky-blue silk, buckled with diamonds, reconciled Lady Binks to the part of Hippolyta.
Saint Ronan's Well
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You sit at sky-blue tables on lawned or cobbled terraces there's a covered pavilion for wet days; the food is fresh, hearty and cooked to order by farmer's wife Nikki Exton – who manages to juggle gardening with lambing, growing herbs and salad leaves, making chutneys, baking cakes and dishing up crowd-pleasing meals.
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On the thatched roof above the Plexiglas light bubble and long-dead solar panels is a rainbow wind sock; a sky-blue 1940s truck muralled with latex paint clouds is parked out front amid a patch of lupins, Shasta daisies, Scotch broom, and California poppies.
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Jeff had a long slender face with blonde, flyaway hair and sky-blue eyes.
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The path snaked along the trackbed between banks of stitchwort, yellow archangel and sky-blue flowers of green alkanet.
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And this impression is greatly helped by the fantastical finery of his dress: sky-blue satin cravat, yards of gold chain, white French gloves, light drab great-coat lined with velvet of the same colour, invisible inexpressibles, skin-coloured and fitting like a glove, etc., etc.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face.
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Other faceted stones include bright emerald-green demantoid garnets, golden citrines and heliodors, and large faceted aquamarines with colors of sky-blue and sea-green.
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Her silk dress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.
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Scillas bring the sky-blue color down to earth under flowering pear trees and forsythias, as hyacinths underplanted with pansies welcome visitors.
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The fabric was of a sky-blue color with designs of lotus blossoms, and her obi was dark-blue to stand out against the bright colors.
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Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face.
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Something in his sky-blue eyes switched off at the mention of the word `dream".
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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His fluttering eyes look at me, small slits of sky-blue against the black of his lashes and dirty tan of his skin.
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The free-standing, sky-blue core can be glimpsed as you move through the building and a canted link corridor connects the new extension with the main laboratory.
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Soon after a cream-colored bell-flower begins to nod from a tall, slender stalk; another of sky-blue soon opens beside it; beneath these a little five-petaled flower of deep pink tries to outshine the blossoms of the alfileria; and above them soon stands the radiant shooting-star, with reflexed petals of white, yellow, and pink shining behind its purplish ovaries.
Our Italy
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At length the big red sun sank slowly behind the curtain of sky-blue rock, where lies the not yet "combusted" village of Tajurrah.
First Footsteps in East Africa
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The young gentleman had bought a light sky-blue neckerchief, and a very large breast-pin containing a gem which he was assured by the vender was a genuine stone.
The Guardian Angel
