slate blue

How to use slate blue in a sentence

• A petrel it is, about the size of a house pigeon, and of a slate-blue colour.

  The Land of Fire | Mayne Reid

• Above it pulsed and banded a tumult of smoke gray clouds; the eastern horizon was a slate blue, rapidly darkening.

  Mountain | Clement Wood

• It reaches a length of three or four feet, and is of a slate-blue colour above and very pale yellow below.

  The Sea Shore | William S. Furneaux

• The male is of a slate-blue, and has a broad black band across the tail.

  Birds in Flight | W. P. Pycraft

• His trousers were striped and of a slate blue colour—the "blue pants" of the ready-made clothing stores.

  Vandover and the Brute | Frank Norris