blue-black

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The boar’s tusks were as long as baseball bats and its fur an iridescent blue-black.

From Literature

Mother takes Tía Raquel’s trembling hand and leads everyone to the courtyard, where we can see the stars shining in the blue-black sky.

From Literature

“Plums, the operation is heating up in Baltimore,” she wrote, quickly dipping her pen into the blue-black ink, and I wondered who Plums was.

From Literature

The earth below curved away like the surface of a globe, and the sky above shaded to a spacy blue-black.

From Literature

The large blue-black wasps with bright orange wings are “a much better way to estimate the spider population than trying to actually find the spiders, which are intensely secretive,” Yanega said.

From Los Angeles Times