How to Use cyan in a Sentence

cyan

noun
  • The plane would have a new red, white and blue color scheme as opposed to its current cyan, white and blue.
    Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
  • Now Formlabs offers a third choice with Tough Resin, which creates smooth cyan chains strong enough to hoist cinder blocks.
    Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 30 June 2015
  • The essie Nail Polish in off-beat chic is a gorgeous cyan that is actually long-lasting.
    Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Starfish are the color of warm skies at midnight; sea snakes, banded in silver and shimmering black, wriggle towards the soft cyan sea.
    Nick Remsen, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
  • There is a printer nozzle check there that prints a small pattern of lines from each of the printer's four ink nozzles (black, cyan, magenta and yellow).
    Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2019
  • And then there are his shocking bright talons, painted crimson, cyan, or marigold yellow depending on the frame, which are the proverbial cherry on top of his vivid, high-impact looks.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 6 June 2018
  • The system works like this: photochromic dyes in cyan, magenta and yellow, the standard set of pigments used in printing, are mixed into a sprayable solution.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2019
  • For starters, there are over 19 patterns to choose from—ranging from a cool cyan leopard print to an abstract floral design—so the high-waisted leggings come with no shortage of options.
    Jayla Andrulonis, Health.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The cobblestone streets and passageways are framed by historic buildings all painted in varying shades of cyan, powder blue, and periwinkle.
    Megan Barber, Curbed, 19 Feb. 2019
  • The color of the object is determined by the wavelength of the light—for example, green light is absorbed by magenta dye, leaving yellow and cyan, resulting in a green object.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2019
  • For the ’60s-era chapter of the story, Prieto modeled his palette after vintage Ektachrome film, which skews toward cyan and blue-green, and translates, Prieto says, into colder blacks and cooler shadows.
    Hugh Hart, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020
  • There’s also a special edition Pokémon Sword and Shield version, all releasing this fall, which will feature cyan and magenta buttons with Pokémon designs along its gray body.
    Brittany Vincent, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2019
  • Gels in cyan, magenta and yellow have been inserted into openings between the linear and triangular structural beams holding up the roof.
    Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Cast in aluminum with black powder coating, the sculpture is tinged at the edges with the printing colors of cyan, magenta and yellow as though this representation of a person is beginning to come into full color.
    New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • For instance, Actinomyces bacteria, in red, grow close to the epithelial tissue of the tongue, shown in gray, while Rothia bacteria, in cyan, form long patches between other communities.
    Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 24 Mar. 2020
  • On a chair constructed from four square steel-tubing frames, nylon webbing in various shades (cyan, khaki, optic white, vermilion) creates a seat with a similarly unpredictable checkered design.
    New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020

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