How to Use bluish in a Sentence

bluish

adjective

• The back of the chair on the left casts soft, bluish shadows on the wall.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• In the driveway next to the house sat a bluish gray BMW.
  — Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2023
• The beard looks great, even if it’s blown out and bluish.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 June 2019
• In the video, Lokesh waves his hands across the sand to produce the bluish glow.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
• The glossy toothed leaves are dark green with a bluish caste, and the berries are bright red.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Oct. 2022
• Hamilton slapped him in the face, which had turned a bluish gray.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 2 Oct. 2017
• His ears, which were a bluish hue at one point, turned red.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• Randolph chose a bluish-black hue for the walls of the small living room.
  — Chantal Lamers, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• This is a grass with blades that are bluish green in color.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2023
• The sun peeked through bluish-gray clouds, and the aspen leaves were a brilliant shade of gold.
  — Brad Dokken, The Know, 31 July 2019
• Overhead, a canopy of stars stretched across the bluish-black winter sky.
  — Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2023
• These are always in warmer tones, while the present has a bluish starkness.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Twin Cities, 23 Dec. 2019
• Cool tones carry hints of pink, plus red or bluish hues.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 11 Oct. 2022
• The color wasn’t the bluish white of snow and ice, but rather a radiant, pink-hued ivory.
  — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
• Even a small amount of methemoglobin in your blood can block the uptake of oxygen and turn the skin bluish.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 3 Jan. 2021
• The children look like siblings, with brown hair, bluish eyes and wide smiles.
  — Lynne Terry | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 13 May 2017
• For about three minutes on the live stream, small bluish-white lights seemed to flicker on the night side of Earth.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• But then his face began to turn yellow and the area around his eyes took on a bluish hue.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• I'm known for shades like periwinkle, blue gray, and a bluish white.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 28 May 2015
• The bluish-green needles are long (up to 7-9 inches), feathery and clumped in groups of five.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• All take their cue from bluish-green paint framing the window.
  — Bo Niles, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• It is made with polyester fabric and comes in three colors: blue, gray, and bluish gray.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2023
• The birds have a distinctive white head, more white along the back of the neck, bluish-gray wings and body, orange legs and a pink bill.
  — Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
• Blue jays sport mostly blue feathers with a bluish crest that gives way to a white face and white chest.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 10 Nov. 2020
• To counter the resulting bluish tint, whiteners—plaster of Paris, or chalk—were added to the recipe.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• Younger sea ice, including first-year ice, is shown in shades of bluish gray.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021
• The oval 2-inch leaves are rich green with a slightly bluish cast, and are attractive in their own right.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• The skin of the limp body — draped all the way across the canvas — is what speaks loudest: The bloodless flesh of a corpse going bluish gray says dead.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• The person has bluish or purplish-colored lips and nails.
  — Fox News, 6 July 2022
• Our review unit has this Slate Blue finish, but it's more realistically described as a near-black with a bluish tint.
  — PCMAG, 5 May 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024