indigo

Example Sentences

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As the first butter-yellow crocuses peek above chocolate-brown mulch, homeowners head back from paint stores with indigo and bird’s egg blue samples — and black if they are in the know.

From Seattle Times

There are nods to systemic exploitation — Miss Havisham’s inherited fortune comes from “opium, indigo and slaves” — and some random expressions of feminism and activism.

From Los Angeles Times

Best of all, for anyone with a penchant for the color black: Air-drying keeps your blacks and other darks, like deep indigo denim, looking their best much longer.

From Salon

In the early 1960s, Dr. Emlen, then a graduate student at the University of Michigan and now an emeritus professor at Cornell, began carrying indigo buntings into a planetarium in the evenings.

From New York Times

The Edge 20 Pro comes in a handsome indigo vegan leather option.

From The Verge