sky-colored

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 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

And through one grand opening in this multicolored surging of hills and peaks you perceive the gold- yellow of cane-fields touching the sky-colored sea.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio