bluish

Example Sentences

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One year on the distant, bluish gas giant — the time it takes Uranus to go once around the sun — is 84 Earth years.

From New York Times

Investigators warned students who had consumed anything in the building to seek medical treatment if they "feel unwell or their extremities show a bluish discoloration".

From BBC

Blair, who co-owns a company that sells antique jewelry, also noticed that the skin around her son’s fingernails sometimes had a slight bluish tinge.

From Washington Post

More than a century ago, a bluish butterfly flitted among the sand dunes of the Sunset District in San Francisco and laid its eggs on a plant known as deerweed.

From New York Times

Nitrates can cause so-called blue baby syndrome in which infants lose the ability to properly process oxygen into the bloodstream, giving their skin a bluish tint.

From Seattle Times