All 31 Uses
blues
in
Breaking Dawn, by Meyer
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- I held my breath while his skin changed colors—fair to red, red to purple, purple to blue.†
Book 1
- "Something blue," she said.†
Book 1
- Dark blue sapphires were clustered into intricate floral shapes atop the teeth.†
Book 1
- "That's something old and something blue," Alice mused, taking a few steps back to admire me.†
Book 1
- The three of them quickly had me out of my dress and into Alice's deep blue going-away ensemble.†
Book 1
- The rest of me was decorated with patches of blue and purple.†
Book 1
- Edward stood in front of the stainless steel stove, sliding an omelet onto the light blue plate waiting on the counter.†
Book 1
- I was sleeping in the blue room now.†
Book 1
- The blue room was smaller, the bed more reasonably proportioned.†
Book 1
- The walls were dark, paneled in teak, and the fittings were all luxurious blue silk.†
Book 1
- He pulled the trash bin out from under the sink—it was full of empty blue cartons.†
Book 1
- He'd already swept me up into his arms, and his lips silenced mine as he carried me with inhuman speed to the blue room.†
Book 1
- I picked up the small blue box and stared at it in my hand for a long moment, forgetting everything else.†
Book 1
- So I reached into the suitcase and fumbled around until I found the little blue box of tampons again.†
Book 1 *
- I yanked the blue fabric out of the way and stared at my stomach.†
Book 1
- I could hear past the trees, to the road, the sounds of the cars coming around that last bend where you could finally see the beach—the vista of the islands and the rocks and the big blue ocean stretching to the horizon.†
Book 2
- This blue one?†
Book 2
- Shoulda brought some blue balloons.†
Book 2
- People were out celebrating the blue sky.†
Book 2
- I stared into the face of every girl who passed anywhere near me, making myself really look, noticing who was pretty and who had blue eyes and who looked good in braces and who had way too much makeup on.†
Book 2
- Alice darted into the room and clipped a little blue earpiece under Rosalie's hair.†
Book 2
- I wheeled back to the operating table, where Bella was turning blue, her eyes wide and staring.†
Book 2
- Tightly fitted ice-blue silk?†
Book 3
- "Presents," Edward corrected, and he pulled another key—this one longer and silver with a less gaudy blue bow—from his pocket.†
Book 3
- It was driftwood burning there—the low flames were blue and green from the salt.†
Book 3
- The walls were that almost-white-blue of a brilliant sunny day, and the back wall had big glass doors that opened into a little hidden garden.†
Book 3
- With a triumphant grin, he held out a pair of artfully faded blue jeans.†
Book 3
- As my eyes flitted across the edge of a distant cliff, standing out starkly blue-gray against the green-black forest, a glint of silver—or was it gold?†
Book 3
- He wore a red silk tie with a blue-and-white-striped shirt, and his navy blazer hung over the back of his chair.†
Book 3
- Sweat was dewing up on his forehead again, and he pulled a blue silk handkerchief from his pocket and began mopping.†
Book 3
- The cottage was a place of perfect peace in the silver-blue night.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(blues as in: sings the blues) a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a "soulful" or melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notesBlue notes are notes that are sung or played slightly lower than they would be in the major scale—especially the flattened third, fifth, and seventh degrees.
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(2)
(blues as in: feeling the blues) feelings of sadness or depression
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(3)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) "Blues" more commonly describes shades of the color.