How to Use cyan in a Sentence

cyan

noun

• The plane would have a new red, white and blue color scheme as opposed to its current cyan, white and blue.
  — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
• Now Formlabs offers a third choice with Tough Resin, which creates smooth cyan chains strong enough to hoist cinder blocks.
  — Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 30 June 2015
• The essie Nail Polish in off-beat chic is a gorgeous cyan that is actually long-lasting.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• Starfish are the color of warm skies at midnight; sea snakes, banded in silver and shimmering black, wriggle towards the soft cyan sea.
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
• There is a printer nozzle check there that prints a small pattern of lines from each of the printer's four ink nozzles (black, cyan, magenta and yellow).
  — Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2019
• And then there are his shocking bright talons, painted crimson, cyan, or marigold yellow depending on the frame, which are the proverbial cherry on top of his vivid, high-impact looks.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 6 June 2018
• The system works like this: photochromic dyes in cyan, magenta and yellow, the standard set of pigments used in printing, are mixed into a sprayable solution.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2019
• For starters, there are over 19 patterns to choose from—ranging from a cool cyan leopard print to an abstract floral design—so the high-waisted leggings come with no shortage of options.
  — Jayla Andrulonis, Health.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• The cobblestone streets and passageways are framed by historic buildings all painted in varying shades of cyan, powder blue, and periwinkle.
  — Megan Barber, Curbed, 19 Feb. 2019
• The color of the object is determined by the wavelength of the light—for example, green light is absorbed by magenta dye, leaving yellow and cyan, resulting in a green object.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2019
• For the ’60s-era chapter of the story, Prieto modeled his palette after vintage Ektachrome film, which skews toward cyan and blue-green, and translates, Prieto says, into colder blacks and cooler shadows.
  — Hugh Hart, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020
• There’s also a special edition Pokémon Sword and Shield version, all releasing this fall, which will feature cyan and magenta buttons with Pokémon designs along its gray body.
  — Brittany Vincent, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2019
• Gels in cyan, magenta and yellow have been inserted into openings between the linear and triangular structural beams holding up the roof.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Cast in aluminum with black powder coating, the sculpture is tinged at the edges with the printing colors of cyan, magenta and yellow as though this representation of a person is beginning to come into full color.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• For instance, Actinomyces bacteria, in red, grow close to the epithelial tissue of the tongue, shown in gray, while Rothia bacteria, in cyan, form long patches between other communities.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 24 Mar. 2020
• On a chair constructed from four square steel-tubing frames, nylon webbing in various shades (cyan, khaki, optic white, vermilion) creates a seat with a similarly unpredictable checkered design.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024