the blue
Example Sentences
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Off a Mediterranean beach, countless shoes bobbed in the blue waters, abandoned by migrants who had swum to this slice of Spanish territory along the Strait of Gibraltar, just off the coast of Morocco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, was charged last month after surveillance footage showed him stopping at the Reflecting Pool and touching sections of the blue liner that had begun peeling away.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
"At first I thought my husband was joking, with the blue sky and the fires dying down," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
"Out of the blue, inspiration struck me," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Next came Morgan Stanley—again out of the blue.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
