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Example sentences for "blue ribbon"

  • He has a mole on his forehead over his left eye; has a blue ribbon to his cane and sword, and wears his own hair.

  • On the table was a fine sword, with a red velvet scabbard, and a beautiful chased silver handle, with a blue ribbon for a sword-knot.

  • On his way to this abode of the destitute, he was overtaken by a huge man with a little bit of blue ribbon in his button-hole.

  • The decoration is suspended from a simple loop and bar from a dark-blue ribbon 1½ in.

  • Those who retained them wore them suspended from a blue ribbon.

  • The star is suspended from a laureated bar bearing a crescent and star by means of a dark-blue ribbon 1½ in.

  • A small silk purse containing coin, with a blue ribbon attached, was seen lying upon the ground.

  • Stringless it was, though the broken strands of a blue ribbon attached to it showed that it had not always been so.

  • A hoe, perhaps, tied up with a blue ribbon.

  • As he finished speaking, Uncle Steve drew from his pocket a little bright key hung on a blue ribbon, which he gravely presented to Marjorie.

  • I think it's a locket," said Marjorie, "on a blue ribbon to hang round your neck.

  • It may be noted, however, that it is not considered correct for a widow to make use of the true lover's knot of blue ribbon, which is sometimes used in the case of an unmarried lady.

  • The knot of ribbon, when employed, is usually in the form of a thin streamer of blue ribbon tied in the conventional true lover's knot (Fig.

  • In the first case, the hatchment of an unmarried lady showed the whole of the background black, the paternal arms on a lozenge, and this suspended by a knot of blue ribbon.

  • But the impaled arms were not depicted upon a lozenge, but upon a shield, and the shield was surmounted by the true lover's knot of blue ribbon.

  • And there is two little shirts and bands, and very long underskirts with feather stitches in them, and there's a little cream kimona with a blue ribbon bow on it.

  • I did feel some sad feels when I could not take her walking down the lane with her nice new blue ribbon on.

  • I did have knowing all my animal friends would be glad for the remembers of the needs of Aphrodite, for a blue ribbon.

  • The great rolls of pretty golden curls had been half confined behind her head with a blue ribbon, while a fresh white rose, bordered on all sides with pink geraniums, adorned her throat.

  • Lottie handed her a large bundle of papers, containing at least a dozen sheets of paper covered with writing, the last one being sealed with red wax, to which was attached a blue ribbon, just below the notary's signature.

  • Her sleeves were short, for she had cut them off and arranged them in a puff above her elbows to save rolling them up, and her white bib-apron was fastened on each shoulder with a knot of blue ribbon, Harold's favorite color.

  • Taking up the papers one by one, in the order in which she had found them, she tied them again with the blue ribbon, and put them into the bag.

  • A little hot beer would do yer bloomin' temper a deal more good than ten yards o' blue ribbon at sixpence.

  • Then they saw him drive a nail in the wall close to the other, take his flute from the table, tie around it a piece of blue ribbon he had picked up off the floor, and hang it also on the wall.

  • But already it bore a blue ribbon, and its owner was the richer by the prize of a glass bowl and the envy of a score of deft-handed competitors.

  • A wild shout of joy burst from the rural party when the most portly and rubicund of the portly and red-faced judges advanced into the ring and decorated Jenkins Hollis with the blue ribbon.

  • To her it hardly seemed rare enough for the blue ribbon on the frame.

  • Also, a defendant who has been convicted by a special, or "blue ribbon," jury cannot validly contend that he was thereby denied due process of law.

  • New York[1212] where it upheld a conviction by a "blue ribbon" jury.

  • This voice was not like a blue ribbon; it was like snow.

  • It was the first time Oldmeadow had heard her voice that afternoon and he could hardly have believed it the voice that had once reminded him of a blue ribbon.

  • Rooks were cawing and he saw a blue ribbon rolling, rolling out across a spring-tide landscape.

  • I love them best of all," the bland, blue ribbon unrolled.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blue ribbon" 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:
    blue cloth; blue devils; blue eyes; blue field; blue fire; blue grass; blue ground; blue light; blue morocco; blue paper; blue ribbon; blue ruin; blue serge; blue steel; blue velvet; blue water; came about; free government; full half; good investment; large handful; open vessel; seems reasonable; small house; suggested the; toutes les