sky-colored

Example Sentences

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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

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

Adj. blue, azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed; cerulescent†; powder blue, bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

"Should you?" he answers, turning away his face toward the garden-beds, where the blue forget-me-not is unrolling her sky-colored sheet, and the double daisies are stiffly parading their tight pink buttons.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda