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Meanings of blues in English
Synonyms
Examples for "vapors"
Examples for "vapors"
1
The aim is a coalescing of different cultural vapors into something solid.
2
The whole mountain was enveloped in clouds of volcanic ashes and vapors.
3
Male and female mice were exposed to 3 days of ethanol vapors.
4
A furnace pilot light may have ignited the butane vapors, he said.
5
The vapors came welling up over his cupped hand, heavy and rich.
1
The clouds solidified; the vapours thickened; the trailing veils stayed and accumulated.
2
Yet even now the clouds were floating round her and the vapours.
3
Her rivers and oceans send up vapours in which she is clothed.
4
The barometer fell sensibly, and indicated an extreme extension of the vapours.
5
I am sick of her megrims and her vapours and her humours.
1
I am sick of her megrims and her vapours and her humours.
2
The trenches were damp and unhealthy, the intervening years full of megrims.
3
How did you manage to clear your head of those confounded megrims?
4
Beatrice Coddington had an attack of the megrims and remained in her room.
5
You watch a girl who has an attack of the megrims.
1
By all of the blue devils it's good to see you, sir!
2
The specially contemporary spirits are not only devils, they are blue devils.
3
We're a glorious combination against the blue devils, that's what we are.
4
Also I once knew a man who had the blue devils.
5
Darkness isn't wholesome-tooconducive to low spirits and the blue devils.
Usage of blues in English
1
Yet these days it is not just children who experience back-to-school blues.
2
Mick is one of the best natural blues harp players I've heard.
3
Róisín Ingle explains how to beat New Year blues on a budget.
4
They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.
5
To understand the traveling blues you need to be locked down somewhere.
6
The floor-to-ceiling windows framed the brilliant blues of the sea and sky.
7
But there is far more to Bluff City than blues and barbecue.
8
These including excursions into free jazz, Cuban music, blues, rock and classical.
9
His voice at times reminded me of the blues singer Howlin' Wolf.
10
Memphis Minnie: among the first blues performers to switch to electric guitar.
11
Moving organ work The Wheel's on Fire is a slow emotional blues.
12
Then it's on to Memphis, home to Elvis' Graceland and blues music.
13
Staying in this dull place was enough to give anyone the blues.
14
Aftershock is rooted in the blues and rockabilly of Lemmy's early years.
15
In Ray Charles's absence, their North Carolina-twanged blues made us sad enough.
16
Photo: Commons A French composer introduces the blues to his classical music.
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Blues through the time
Blues across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Common
South Africa
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