sky-colored

Example Sentences

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My eyes grasp at the prisoners corralled behind the soldiers, locking on each row, desperately scanning for sky-colored material.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The beads of the rosary, which were twisted around the waist of her sky-colored habit, rustled as she moved.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Emma comes into the kitchen and sets her cereal bowl, half-filled with sky-colored milk, next to the sink.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

A small sky-colored ladder led up to the door of this artistic heaven, which remained closed long after a crowd of loungers had gathered around it.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

A pair of sky-colored kid gloves next made their appearance: which, however, showed such barefaced marks of former service as rendered indispensable a ten minutes' rubbing with bread-crumbs.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel