How to Use bluish in a Sentence

bluish

adjective
  • The back of the chair on the left casts soft, bluish shadows on the wall.
    Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • In the driveway next to the house sat a bluish gray BMW.
    Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The beard looks great, even if it’s blown out and bluish.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 June 2019
  • In the video, Lokesh waves his hands across the sand to produce the bluish glow.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The glossy toothed leaves are dark green with a bluish caste, and the berries are bright red.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Hamilton slapped him in the face, which had turned a bluish gray.
    Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 2 Oct. 2017
  • His ears, which were a bluish hue at one point, turned red.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • Randolph chose a bluish-black hue for the walls of the small living room.
    Chantal Lamers, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • This is a grass with blades that are bluish green in color.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The sun peeked through bluish-gray clouds, and the aspen leaves were a brilliant shade of gold.
    Brad Dokken, The Know, 31 July 2019
  • Overhead, a canopy of stars stretched across the bluish-black winter sky.
    Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2023
  • These are always in warmer tones, while the present has a bluish starkness.
    Lindsey Bahr, Twin Cities, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Cool tones carry hints of pink, plus red or bluish hues.
    Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The color wasn’t the bluish white of snow and ice, but rather a radiant, pink-hued ivory.
    Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
  • Even a small amount of methemoglobin in your blood can block the uptake of oxygen and turn the skin bluish.
    Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 3 Jan. 2021
  • The children look like siblings, with brown hair, bluish eyes and wide smiles.
    Lynne Terry | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 13 May 2017
  • For about three minutes on the live stream, small bluish-white lights seemed to flicker on the night side of Earth.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
  • But then his face began to turn yellow and the area around his eyes took on a bluish hue.
    Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • I'm known for shades like periwinkle, blue gray, and a bluish white.
    Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 28 May 2015
  • The bluish-green needles are long (up to 7-9 inches), feathery and clumped in groups of five.
    Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • All take their cue from bluish-green paint framing the window.
    Bo Niles, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • It is made with polyester fabric and comes in three colors: blue, gray, and bluish gray.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The birds have a distinctive white head, more white along the back of the neck, bluish-gray wings and body, orange legs and a pink bill.
    Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Blue jays sport mostly blue feathers with a bluish crest that gives way to a white face and white chest.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • To counter the resulting bluish tint, whiteners—plaster of Paris, or chalk—were added to the recipe.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Younger sea ice, including first-year ice, is shown in shades of bluish gray.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The oval 2-inch leaves are rich green with a slightly bluish cast, and are attractive in their own right.
    Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The skin of the limp body — draped all the way across the canvas — is what speaks loudest: The bloodless flesh of a corpse going bluish gray says dead.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
  • The person has bluish or purplish-colored lips and nails.
    Fox News, 6 July 2022
  • If the glasses are safe, the sun will appear comfortably bright and likely white, yellow, orange or bluish white.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024

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