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How to use blue in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Blue means of a blue hue. Example: “Why is the sky blue?”

Examples of blue by meaning

adjectiveOf a blue hue.

  • the deep blue sea
  • Why is the sky blue?
  • He was wearing a blue t-shirt.

adjectiveDepressed, melancholic, sad.

  • “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode!1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  • I'm just the least bit blue."1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Transgression of Andrew Vane, Henry Holt and Company, page 140

adjectiveHaving a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells...

  • My hands were blue with cold.
  • The divers got them out of the car just in time – they were starting to turn blue.

adjectivePale, without redness or glare.

  • The candle burns blue.

adjectiveSupportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.

  • I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.

adjectiveSupportive of or related to the Liberal Party.

  • Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout

adjectiveSevere or overly strict in morals; gloomy.

  • blue and sour religionists; blue laws

adjectiveRisqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.

  • His material is too blue for prime time.
  • The air was blue with oaths.
  • a blue movie

More sentences with blue

  • The blue team are on six points and the red team on five.From the entry on
  • My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.From the entry odd
  • The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.From the entry black
  • Mine is the blue one, and hers is the red one.From the entry hers
  • I tried for ages to find a pair of blue suede shoes, but didn't have any luck.From the entry luck
  • Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.From the entry eye
  • I painted the bathroom walls light blue, and I painted the ceiling white.From the entry paint
  • The sky was remarkably bright and blue on that beautiful summer day.From the entry bright
  • Can you go and buy some yoghurt and blue cheese from the dairy?From the entry dairy
  • He played the blue ball, but the green would have been a better choice.From the entry play
  • The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.From the entry field
  • Please vote your ballot using black or blue ink, then seal your ballot inside the privacy envelope.From the entry vote
  • Pack the boxes, but hold out a few blue ones for later.From the entry hold out
  • The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.From the entry bolt
  • The referee had to spot the pink on the blue spot.From the entry spot
  • Steve has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on his cheeks and nose.From the entry freckle
  • My arm is still black and blue from slipping on the ice yesterday.From the entry black and blue
  • The most common level of the colour variable is red. The other levels are blue and green.From the entry level
  • The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.From the entry fiber
  • The artist was a small, intense man with piercing blue eyes.From the entry intense
  • Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.From the entry tint
  • If we tweak the colors towards blue, it will look more natural.From the entry tweak
  • Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.From the entry running
  • And my eyes are weird green grey. More greeny blue in daylight.From the entry greeny
  • Mary is going to have another baby. I'll most probably have blue eyes, because both parents do.From the entry be going to
  • I really can't understand how something like this could simply pop up out of the blue.From the entry out of the blue

Meaning of blue

  1. adjective Of a blue hue.
  2. adjective Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  3. adjective Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.

Full definition of blue

Questions about blue in a sentence

How do you use blue in a sentence?
Blue is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Why is the sky blue?”
What is a short sentence with blue?
“a blue movie”
What does blue mean?
Blue means of a blue hue.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blue (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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