blues

Example Sentences

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Listeners spent summer nights with jazz greats and blues artists.

From The Wall Street Journal

Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.

From The Wall Street Journal

The cool blues of “Winter” are raked through with rich purple, as hints of evergreens creep in from the edges.

From The Wall Street Journal

CS: I really related to that part of Wanda’s book “The Riot Inside Me” because my mom does not listen to the blues — I only heard it when she was not in the house.

From Los Angeles Times

You know the folk legend: Down at a crossroads, Johnson bartered his soul to the devil for mastery of the blues guitar.

From New York Times