indigo
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Across the gold-leaf ground, horsemen of the avant-garde charge into the indigo ocean, firing arrows in pursuit of the fleeing Taira clan boats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
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
"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
There are copper head snakes, coral snakes, cottonmouth snakes, and the blue indigo snake, so long and fast it can kill a rattlesnake.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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The sky, low and heavy with tumbled cloud, was a study in greys and indigoes; the earth a still, uncharted waste.
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
Strangely enough, in the vicinity of Denver in 1901, these birds were abundant and as easily approached and studied as are the indigoes of the East.
From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
Jim's idea of the word "indigoes" was, that it drew its meaning partly from the color of the articles designated, and partly from their office.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
The way I feel lately sometimes, honest, I think if I get to getting the indigoes much deeper, there's no telling where they'll land me.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst
Amorpha, a-mor′fa, n. a genus of North American shrubs of the bean family, the false indigoes or lead-plants—also bastard or wild indigo.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Her paintings, in black-on-black or leavened by indigos or grays, include sharp lines reminiscent of architectural drawings, but also effusive layers and drips.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
At the mixing station, Andrea Arriola-Pinto swirled light magentas, indigos and dark purples in four separate dishes like an artist mixing paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
On São Tomé and Príncipe, two tiny islands off the west coast of Africa, Rayna Bell came across Lilliputian frogs, decked out in lime green, speckled in leopard print and daubed with indigos.
From Nature ● Oct. 6, 2015
Hallway carpets with comically giant indigos and carrot-orange walls conspire to create a visual jungle.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2010
The moon paints the sky in deep violets and indigos.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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