How to Use blues in a Sentence

blues

noun

• Air Force recruits wait to be issued their dress blues.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 14 May 2021
• Greyson's accents use more blues and olive greens, and Emerson's blush with some pink.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 May 2021
• Barnes had members of 38 Special over to jam on blues songs.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 14 May 2021
• Helped to create country genre by blending gospel harmonies with blues and folk.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 22 May 2021
• Chevy Impalas, freshly polished and painted in splashy reds, blues and greens.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
• Inside are 12 stunning shades of corals, coppers, mauves, blues, and purples.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 11 May 2021
• Leave plenty of time to gaze at the mind-bending blues of the deepest, purest lake in America.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2021
• For more distant views, whites or yellows worked the best, and for closeup viewing, the deeper colors worked well — reds, blues and purples.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 24 May 2021
• The genre grew out of various other genres such as gospel, jazz, blues, boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues and country music.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• The dark, disapproved, material was expressed elsewhere, in the blues.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• The Black Keys have never been afraid to look backward — especially concerning the blues.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
• His love and knowledge of folk, country, blues, rock, pop, bluegrass, jazz, Celtic music and more gave him a deep well of resources with which to paint his masterpieces.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
• Check out the list of cover bands doing tributes to classic rockers like Queen and Aerosmith, along with some blues and Top 40 sets.
  — Kevin Davis, Chron, 14 May 2021
• The Pacific Coast of North America is a land of deep greens and blues, soft gray skies that bring drenching rain in the winters and dry ochre summers.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
• Her work has spanned from folk and rock to blues and jazz.
  — Natalia Barr, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• And those roots come from the blues and the realness of the pain and the feeling.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 15 Nov. 2021
• Sharon Lewis sings the blues at 8:45 p.m. Tickets via ourconcerts.live.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 23 Mar. 2022
• And don't be fooled by the cutesy nickname; the winter blues pack a mean punch.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2022
• Denim jeans aren't exclusive to just the navy and blues of the world.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2022
• As a group, the blues brothers rarely put one on the scoresheet for the better part of two months.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• The new name was taken from a 1962 jump blues hit by Piano Red.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• From nude shades, to black, silvers, and hints of light blues and pinks makes up the women’s looks.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• On the flip of that, no blues artist turned down that Lee Atwater gig.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
• The song, written by Billy Page, was a Top 20 hit for Gray, a rhythm-and-blues singer.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• Either way, this trend is the brightest way to fight the drab winter blues.
  — Meg Donohue, ELLE, 23 Sep. 2022
• Then there's the iridescent snake, its scales shifting through blues and greens in the light.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• Nicholas Barron and the Strapping Owls play the blues at 8:45 p.m. Tickets via ourconcerts.live.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021
• There is drama and depth sweeping through the blending of blues and whites.
  — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
• Oh, American rock is still deeply rooted in Chuck Berry [and] the blues far more than British music is.
  — Hannah Ewens, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2022
• For 25 years in Aurora, having the blues has been a reason to celebrate.
  — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024