Sample Sentences for
azure
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    The sky is azure blue with puffy white clouds.  (source)
    azure = with the color of the sky on a clear sunny day as the shade of
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    There was a rippling image of an island set under cloudless azure skies.  (source)
    azure = with the blue of a clear sunny day
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    A handful of stars had emerged in the clear azure sky.  (source)
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    Don't tell me you've forgotten the dead women with azure hair and eyes like snake-filled pits?  (source)
    azure = sky-blue
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    The head was finished already: there was but the background to tint and the drapery to shade off; a touch of carmine, too, to add to the ripe lips — a soft curl here and there to the tresses — a deeper tinge to the shadow of the lash under the azured eyelid.†  (source)
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    The aquamarines near the shoreline, the azures of deeper waters, the eggshell blues beneath by grandmother's eyes, the fragile indigos tracking her hands.†  (source)
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    Azure curtains hung from the arches which were shocking pink.†  (source)
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    An azured harebell like her veins.†  (source)
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    "With azure eyes" — they're actually sort of brown, wouldn't you say?†  (source)
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    His skin was a pale, dusky gold, his eyes bright, hard marbles of azure under thick brows.†  (source)
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    The spice-blue overcast on his eyes made the sky appear dark, a richly filtered azure against which a distant rhythmic flashing stood out in sharp contrast.†  (source)
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    She did not gown herself as a lady, but chose a knight's finery instead, a velvet doublet quartered rose-and-azure, breeches and boots and a fine-tooled swordbelt, her new rainbow cloak flowing down her back.†  (source)
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    At the moment, the lady who helped Jesus Christ shepherd Rev. McBride's children to adulthood-and the surviving founder of the New Brown Memorial Baptist Church-is sitting at the end of a long table on the dais, the only white person in the room, wearing a blue print dress and holding my two-year-old daughter, Azure, in her lap.†  (source)
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    "You'd think," said Rose-and-Azure beside me, mistaking Seivarden's intent.  (source)
    Azure = a name in this novel
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    "And of course," interjected Rose-and-Azure, "those all have to be paid."  (source)
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    "That's beside the point," answered Rose-and-Azure.  (source)
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    But I was sure Rose-and-Azure wasn't particularly brave.  (source)
    Azure = a name in this novel
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    Station had certainly seen my startlement back in the tea shop, when Rose-and-Azure had said, "Justice of Toren."  (source)
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    The person next to me was a civilian in rose and azure, delicate satin gloves that suggested she never handled anything rougher or heavier than a bowl of tea, and an ostentatiously large brooch of woven and hammered gold wire set with sapphires—not, I was sure, glass.  (source)
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    "Ridiculous!" exclaimed Rose-and-Azure beside me, while Captain Vel poured a howl of tea and offered it to Seivarden.  (source)
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    Rose-and-Azure tipped her head toward Captain Vel, who to judge by her expression had finally understood Seivarden's words as Rose-and-Azure had not.  (source)
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    Rose-and-Azure tipped her head toward Captain Vel, who to judge by her expression had finally understood Seivarden's words as Rose-and-Azure had not.  (source)
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    "They say," said Rose-and-Azure beside me, taking a pastry from the table in front of her, "that if it hadn't been for Justice of Toren's disappearance they'd have scrapped one of the other carriers by now."  (source)
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    And wondered again what it meant that Rose-and-Azure, and others there, had felt so freely able to speak as they had.  (source)
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