blues
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.
“I couldn’t imagine making a movie about the blues without giving some deeper context on what that music really signifies,” Coogler writes in an email.
From Los Angeles Times
Night flowers in dark purples and blues sprouted from the vines in the walls and even between the cracks in the wall.
From Literature
Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.
His father reasoned that these people were looking for "the blacks and the blues and the greens and the yellows", but why not offer more than that?
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
