Example Sentences

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One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the years, denim replaced canvas, and Levi's acquired their distinctive indigo-blue color and low-slung design.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, she swallowed the giant balloon in her throat and picked up her indigo-blue brush pen.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Then out again into the open beneath the sun and the indigo-blue sky.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

His face and every visible part of his body was hideously tattooed, his thin bare legs looking as if they were covered with indigo-blue stockings.

From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Strang, Mrs. Herbert