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UK
/sˈɛɹuːlˌiən/
]
ADJECTIVE
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of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky
October's bright blue weather
October's bright blue weather
NOUN
- a light shade of blue
How To Use cerulean In A Sentence
- We observe a reduction in fluorescence anisotropy only in the presence of FRET from linked mVenus and mCerulean.
- With each word her eyes turned bluer, and as she finished a flare of cerulean light blazed through my vision.
- The background is an intricately marbleized cascade of diaphanous, sea-foam-green skeins over cerulean blue, a surface more precious and less labored than usual.
- It was a bouquet of flowers, white carnations, with just the very edges of the petals dyed a bright cerulean blue.
- He did wonder why they had those same cerulean eyes as clear as crystal.
- The best book that I have found for readability on the subject, and without losing me along the way with uber-florid prose about artists in smocks, mixing cerulean blue pigment on their paint spattered pallets as the fisherman hauled in pilchards at their feet, is The Shining Sands Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930 by Tom Cross. A day in Cornwall
- The eyes could be either as cold and sparkling as sapphires or as warm and limpid as the deep cerulean of the sea, or even, in certain moods, the misty blue of the mountains.
- Steel clattered, cries soared through the cerulean skies, rage unleashed, war came upon the raging countries.
- Seconds later, an airplane darted by, flying straight into the cerulean blue horizon.
- The water was an insipid hue of cerulean, the texture rough with salt to his sensitized skin.