Sentence examples for block of blue from inspiring English sources

INSIDE: The house, a block of blue corrugated steel, was built in 2009 by a local architect as his personal residence.

Really: the centerpiece of the restaurant is a black steel "sculptural freezer reliquary," as Mr. Goggin called it, a cradle that will house an ancient two-ton block of blue ice that is planned to be wrested from the Greenland Basal Ice Sheet by a scientific expedition next March.

And there are many other works of nearly equal refinement: red lacquer boxes covered with carved patterns so fine they strain your eyes; a tiny monk meditating in a cave carved from a solid block of blue lapis lazuli; a pair of chick-size ducks covered with mother-of-pearl feathers; and a deluxe cup made from a real rhinoceros horn that you could easily mistake for a high-end piece of Art Nouveau.

Further, Republicans and the emerging block of "Blue Dog Democrats" in the Senate would redirect any discussion of meaningful immigration reform to an ordinary congressional horse trade for border security and broader immigration enforcement funding for political allies.

Fashioned from aluminum, one loop was painted bright pink and the other alternating blocks of blue, green, orange and yellow.

In the past, Ms. Horn has presented such insistent enigmas as rubber paving stones, slightly off-kilter spheres and blocks of blue glass.

His palette, never before removed from the studio, hangs on the wall, blocks of blue, white and yellow paint preserved perfectly.

One of his most famous paintings, "Danseuse aux Bords de la Mer" ("Dancer by the Sea"), a sequined figure with blocks of blue and grey, was the first Futurist painting bought by a noted collector, Lydia Winston Malbin.

In the headquarters of Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture (now simply OMA), to the north of the city, where armies of bleary-eyed interns are summoning mysterious shapes from blocks of blue Styrofoam, there is a mild panic of public relations staffers.

Here's how to do it without making a mess: Get a few blocks of "blue ice," normally sold in supermarkets.

Mark King, an artist in Stonington, Conn., hand stenciled the wood floor in blocks of blue-violet and cream for $2,500; he charges $20 to $100 a square foot; (860) 535-3860.