black and blue

Example Sentences

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The singer re-emerged wearing a sparkly black-and-blue outfit complete with roller skates as he introduced will.i.am for their collaboration OMG - a song title which reflected the crowd's reaction.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2024

Thanks to the long break, the black-and-blue Blue Jackets are nearly at full-strength again.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2020

Revel’s black-and-blue mopeds have the acceleration of a motorcycle, the nimbleness of a bicycle, and, on New York streets where the speed limit is 25 mph, the legal top speed of a car.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2019

In a crisp, black-and-blue flannel, a nest of light-brown hair and olive librarian glasses he could have passed as an adjunct at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2019

A nasty black-and-blue swelled along his right cheek.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older