sky-colored

Example Sentences

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Emma comes into the kitchen and sets her cereal bowl, half-filled with sky-colored milk, next to the sink.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The beads of the rosary, which were twisted around the waist of her sky-colored habit, rustled as she moved.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My eyes grasp at the prisoners corralled behind the soldiers, locking on each row, desperately scanning for sky-colored material.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Named from the river; term of Indian origin, signifying "whitish or sky-colored water."

From Alden's Handy Atlas of the World by Alden, John B.

You know dat I know dat yo' po' measly sky-colored milk sours up into mighty fine clabber ter feed yo'ng tukkeys wid—you an' me, we knows dat, don't we?

From Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Stuart, Ruth McEnery