blue
noun
the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nanometers.
bluely
-
a word derived from
blue.
Example Sentences
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Suddenly she stopped with an exclamation; the trees opened before them on the broad Canary sweeping between flat rocks, banks bluely green.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
Far to the northwest rise bluely the three peaks of Monadnock.
From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by W. Sloane Kennedy
They formed an oval frame, through which the bluely boundless sea rolled like a painted one.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
I thought how fine a scene might be played on a stage like this; if I were a ghost, how bluely I would glimmer at the windows, how whimperingly chatter in the wind.
From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
That mystic moth, which, with a sense profound Of all unholy presence, augurs truly; And with a grim significance flits round The taper burning bluely.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
