Sentence examples for mixture of blue from inspiring English sources

Although it takes a mixture of blue and yellow to make green in pigments, light sources combine in a different way.

The fromage sauce, a mixture of blue, Swiss and cheddar cheeses, was very rich, but when you are having filet mignon, what's a few more calories?

The protanope matches white with a mixture of blue and green and is, in fact, unable to distinguish between white and bluish-green.

The house's age is uncertain, but its lean-to extension is known to date from 1717, and the end wall, an attractively irregular mixture of blue lias and hamstone with brick patches where chimneys were built, has a venerable look.

He looked at me. "That will be my next challenge," he said, and he kept staring at me — his eyes are a mixture of blue and dark green — until I dropped my gaze.

He looked at the 34-foot beast and saw the gaudy decoration, the bright mixture of blue and orange, the three pictures, including one of him without a shirt splashed across the back of the vehicle.

San Francisco is a mixture of blue-bloods and gays, dotcom millionaires and ageing hippies.

Their initial direction came from vocalist-guitarist-songwriter Barrett, whose mixture of blues, music hall styles, Lewis Carroll references, and dissonant psychedelia established the band as a cornerstone of the British underground scene.

It was there, the legend goes, that the Band took all that it had learned from years on the road, which spanned much of the history of rock and roll to that point, and compressed it into its new sound — a confident but lightly worn mixture of blues, rockabilly, soul, gospel, and country.

The young record collectors in the Rolling Stones drew their inspiration from black American singers and bands that hadn't penetrated their own culture yet, including Bo Diddley, whose records, with their mixture of blues and Antillean rhythm, probably gave Mr. Jagger the idea about maracas.

What they do not share as targets, though, is offset by the stature of their respective suitors and by the odd mixture of blue-chip companies and private-equity players involved.