blues
Example Sentences
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Coastal homeowners are trading in breezy blues and sandy neutrals for a darker, moody palette.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
But buyers are shaking off the blues in certain parts of the country, even if it doesn’t move the needle much on a national level.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
Probably because at the time many of the time signatures and chordal progressions that Miles used were over the head of a young guitar player still functioning in the blues and folk idioms.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
He said the US was "where all the music we loved came from, all the rock 'n' roll, the blues and the whole thing...America was just the land of the free, the greatest democracy".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
There was the same iron bedstead, and the quilt was multicolored, faded but still cheerful with reds and blues and greens and yellows.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Vocabulary lists containing blues
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
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Bud, Not Buddy
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Music - Introductory
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