blue-black
adjective
black with bluish highlights.
blue-blackness
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a word derived from
blue-black.
Example Sentences
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Shafts of light cut down through the blue-blackness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
The runway lights blinked on and off and the darkness was complete again, absolute; in the blue-blackness Richard felt his head swimming.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And now, as I gazed in marvel and awe, the redness grew deeper, then faded; and the great rocks took on a colour as of the livid blue-blackness of a mighty thunder-cloud.
From The White Shield by Bertram Mitford
Down by the sluice a dozen lanterns flickered and blinked yellow against the blue-blackness of the night.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
After that there were stars—millions of them—each in its place surrounded by that blue-blackness that is luminous and unearthly.
From The Man Thou Gavest by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
