indigo

Example Sentences

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I also found an indigo blue kimono to wear at an art event later this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

As the sub dropped below 200 metres, the last traces of light disappeared, and indigo faded into total darkness.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

Although a menacing observer lurks in the darkness, the couple feels protected, submerged beneath the wall of clouds, which roll like white waves against a huge, indigo sky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

"Kissing me under the indigo / I begged for the morning sun not to rise / Oh, what a beautiful starry night," she sings, totally besotted, on the ballad Indigo.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2025

An ombré ball gown, its color deepening from white near my throat, through palest blue to deepest indigo at my feet.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black