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Example sentences for "pale blue"

  • Defn: Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers.

  • Mining) Defn: A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.

  • Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity!

  • And in particular, we want to learn the compliments he paid you; for some day, when we three are dressed like you in pale blue silk, etc, we may have similar compliments ourselves.

  • But you have noticed men and women and children in pale blue canvas, with thin yellow faces and dull eyes?

  • They fired as they ran at men unseen, and then emerged a number of pale blue figures in pursuit.

  • She was dressed in a pale blue kit of a distinctly seaside cut, so the police are hoping to find her.

  • She was still standing against the pale blue settee, leaning against it for support.

  • He was accompanied by a pretty, dark-haired girl in a summer gown of cream serge and wearing a neat little hat of pale blue silk.

  • The open robe of pale blue satin, brocaded with silver, was lifted at the sides with big bunches of blush and deep-pink roses over a white satin petticoat.

  • A rather older bird is similar to the above, but down the sides and middle of the breast are three lines of pale blue feathers.

  • Iris varies, usually mottled pinkish surrounded by a narrow white ring or a pale blue ring; bill black; legs carmine; nails horn-brown.

  • Wattle surrounding the eye, bill, and feet said to be pale blue.

  • Pure pyroxylic spirit is a transparent colourless liquid, having a penetrating ethereal smell, and a hot disagreeable taste; it is very inflammable, burning with a pale blue flame.

  • When gas mixed with a certain proportion of air is burnt, a pale blue flame, free from smoke, and possessing great heating power, is obtained.

  • If no pale blue flicker or flash is produced, the application of the flame is to be repeated for every rise of two or three degrees in the thermometer.

  • The eggs are four, pale blue in colour, and thickly spotted with brown.

  • The eggs are four or five, pale blue, and thickly marked with reddish-brown spots.

  • The nest is mostly made and lined with horse-hair, the eggs four or five, pale blue, and thickly spotted with dull brown.

  • Suen-tih, whose reign is the most celebrated for the production of Ming porcelain, produced very fine examples, with flowers in pale blue, having red fish moulded as handles.

  • The whole of the background is of brilliant green enamel, the reserves having a pencilled design in black on a pale blue ground.

  • The little mahogany table for the pale blue envelope!

  • There they were in a pale blue envelope on a little mahogany table in the back of Madame Pace's shop.

  • We found ourselves going rather quietly through a blackly purple forest, though overhead the sky was still pale blue.

  • At the edge of one of these hillocks far down the slope he saw the tail of a pale blue skirt, a white parasol cast upon the stubble beside it.

  • And on Monday the unclouded sun was irradiating a pale green world from a pale blue sky.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pale blue" 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:
    bacterial action; general should; general statement; headed windows; heart gave; many hundreds; oesophageal ganglion; pale and; pale blue; pale bluish; pale brown; pale brownish; pale buff; pale gray; pale green; pale greyish; pale pink; pale reddish; pale rose; pale yellow; pale yellowish; reported myself; sharp minor; slightly salted; spiritual consciousness; wife took