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Example sentences for "blue light"

  • About ship then," cried Saltwell, and when she was round, after standing on a little way he hove her to, and ordered Mr Black to burn a blue light to show their position.

  • They will show a blue light as soon as they hear you, and you can scarcely miss the ship.

  • He was a Blue Light, and his temperance habits told in his favour.

  • Perhaps it's because I am a Blue Light," returned the marine, with a laugh.

  • This he applies to the atmosphere, which sends us blue light, or red, according as the darkness of infinite space, or the bright surface of the sun, is regarded through it.

  • The light is sent from side to side, each time plunging a little way into the mass; and being ejected from it by reflection, it thus undergoes a sifting process, and finally reaches the eye as blue light.

  • B, effect of blue light, and V, of ultra-violet light.

  • Effect of blue light on pulvinus of Mimosa.

  • I cannot stop Monsieur Stapleton if he wishes to drive out the road to Versailles and toss a hundred thousand dollars into the first automobile that passes him, showing a blue light.

  • At the same moment there showed through the gathering darkness a brilliant spot of blue light in the tonneau where sat the woman.

  • Somewhere on that road, an automobile in passing will signal me with a blue light.

  • So they looked, but they found nothing like the blue light, and then Ted said he was hungry and wanted to eat.

  • It was a blue light, almost like Fourth of July.

  • I don't know anything about a blue light," the farmer answered.

  • If a red hat is held in a blue light, it appears black; it cannot reflect any of the blue light because that is all absorbed and there is no red light to reflect.

  • Similarly, if a white hat is placed in a blue light, it will reflect all the light which falls upon it, namely, blue light, and will appear blue.

  • For this reason a red light would have a greater range than a blue light of the same luminous intensity.

  • Somewhat analogous to this application of luminous paint is the use of blue light at night on battle-ships and other vessels in action or near the enemy.

  • In general, great intensities of blue light and of the closely associated rays are necessary for most photochemical reactions with which man is industrially interested.

  • The extra one used deep-blue light, which is very effective for eyes adapted to darkness or to very low intensities of illumination and is a short-range light.

  • For example, if a certain room be illuminated by means of blue light, it does seem colder.

  • When fatigued to blue light it is yellowish.

  • The ground around them rocked; one of them turned as though to examine the burst, the other lifted its snout skyward and released a long, thin beam of blue light, not in the least like the light-ray.

  • The snout of the machine lifted toward her as though to deliver a blast, then rose and discharged another beam of blue light.

  • Along the edge of Sherman's cell a blue light began to blink.

  • Look at me, you Irish tief, and tell me if I have a blue light or a conger eel at my stem?

  • When off the San Domingo Gate, we burned a blue light, which was immediately answered by another in shore of us.

  • She now burned a blue light, by which we saw she was a heavy cutter without doubt our old fellow--cruiser the Spark.

  • The different rays of sunlight therefore must have different effects upon the world of living things, and red light must produce conditions of less violent vibration, blue light of quickened vibration.

  • The use of blue curtains is, accordingly enjoined here on account of the invigorating influence of the more violent vibrations of blue light upon an organism suffering under the reduced vibration of a "negative disease.

  • An ordinary blue paint reflects not only blue light, but a large quantity of green as well; while an ordinary yellow paint reflects a large quantity of green light in addition to yellow.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blue light" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute right; before night; blue dress; blue eyes; blue flame; blue flower; blue flowers; blue glass; blue ground; blue isosceles triangle based; blue jays; blue morocco; blue rectangle; blue silk; blue steel; blue vitriol; blue water; but being; despatch from; equally well; indicate the; marriage contract; nine inches; travelling libraries; yearly tribute; your pocket