Sentence examples for a blue on from inspiring English sources

The first real prospect of a Blue on Yellow electoral throwdown where the stakes are high enough to matter?

Making his first appearance at the Crucible since 2005, Milkins showed few nerves, but when he missed a blue on 51 they might have been jangling a touch.

And he turned down all requests to appear in a "blue on blue" head-to-head debate, which Johnson was happy to have.

Franklin connected as well, and it did my heart good to see this dyed-in-the-wool, highly technical flyrodder cranking in a blue on smelly bait.

Obviously, if there is a blue on there, it needs isolating like an infectious disease until you have eaten its companions and you are ready to pull on the Hazmat suit, and take it on.

General Myers also said that if he knew that Army officials had suspected friendly fire — or what the military calls a "blue on blue" attack — in Corporal Tillman's death, he would have informed Mr. Rumsfeld, his boss at the time, but added, "I cannot recall whether or not I did that".

Kitty wore a blue-on-blue sparkle lamé evening dress with a white satin bow.

Streetwise alternatives may include a blue-on-blue cat-patterned bomber cardigan reminiscent of that '80s hipster staple, the slouchy Members Only jacket.

Above the roofed paddock yesterday morning, as if the Triple Crown coronation had already occurred, a blue-on-white banner declared, "Congratulations Smarty Jones".

Tim Farron, the current leader, said: "This is too important to remain a blue-on-blue slug-fest between two chaps who went to Eton 30 years ago.

We lost people out there for no reason – in a blue-on-blue, too, and so my opinion of the Yanks went down a bit.