The use of a yellow or orange will brighten them; that of a red will redden the shade; the addition of a dark blue or a black will darken the shade considerably.
They are all wearing Court dresses of dark blue, or of red with gold lace.
He was in a robe of dark blue silk, magnificently embroidered, and his suite was no less gorgeously attired.
When a woman is in mourning, the same plaid on a dark blue foundation is used.
Her betrothal gown and kerchief have a dark blue or black ground with colored figures.
A breadth of dark blue cotton is always inserted in the left side.
Made of gold bullion and with rather large sequins sewed onto a heavy paper background, the star is mounted on dark blue wool.
Defn: A dark blue dyestuff, of the induline group; -- called also azodiphenyl blue.
By reduction it is changed to a dark blue substance (euchrone), -- hence its name.
Defn: Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them.
There was a lot of room at the oval table; the china of dark blue willow-pattern looked pretty on the glossy cloth.
He found the house in a mean little street paved with granite cobbles and having causeways of dark blue, grooved bricks.
The "Oxford and Cambridge" was printed in dark blue ink, and "Harvard and Yale" in crimson.
I think now it must have been the unconscious wish to keep one link with the good old days when I had carried the "dark blue" to the front, or thereabout, over brown cinder path and soft green sod.
The men wore dark brown or black cotones; the enaguas of the women were wool and were dark blue or black.
The back of the first little creature bared for my inspection bore a clearly defined, dark blue-purple spot, just where it might be expected.
The enagua is made of two strips of dark blue cloth, sewed together, side by side, with a fancy stitching of colored silks.
In the female, the beak is yellow; the head of a dark blue ash-colour, without the ring round the neck; but the place of it is marked by a slight yellow tint.
His dress was much as is usually worn at the present day, consisting of loose trousers of coarse brown cloth, fastened round the waist by a girdle, and a woollen shirt of a dark blue colour.
It had two thick fins and a longish thick tail; was very fat, and of a dark blue colour.
Those uniforms of dark blue, with the gold buttons, and yellow cap-bands, are so well known as to be recognisable at any distance to which love's glances could possibly penetrate.
Dark Blue,--yellow or Dun Midge from middle of April to middle of May.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dark blue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
