On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Blues. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as vapours or vapors and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Blues in a sentence
Related words
Blues meaning
plural of blue
Synonyms of Blues
Using Blues
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of blue
- Useful related words include: black music, vapours, vapors, megrims.
- In the example corpus, blues often appears in combinations such as: the blues, blues and, louis blues.
Context around Blues
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 8 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blues
- In this selection, "blues" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, louis, traditional, downhearted, awards, band and best stand out and add context to how "blues" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 12 bar blues progression remain, 95 meets blues royalty before, louis blues, delta blues and blues music. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blues" sits close to words such as distributed, choices and resort, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blues
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mayall launched the Blues Breakers in 1963 as he pioneered the British blues and rock scene. (16 words)
Lifelong St. Louis Blues fan Mary Walkenhorst, 95, meets Blues royalty before her very first Blues games. (17 words)
He co-founded Blues Gang – Blues Wire which opened for Albert King, Buddy Guy and many, many others. (18 words)
Some sources state that the term blues is related to " blue notes ", the flatted, often microtonal notes used in blues, but the Oxford English Dictionary claims that the term blues came first and led to the naming of "blue notes". (40 words)
A twelve-bar jazz blues will usually feature a more sophisticated—or at any rate a different—treatment of the harmony than a traditional blues would, but the underlying features of the standard 12-bar blues progression remain discernible. (39 words)
Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, but he took the blues from a regional music style ( Delta blues ) with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Lifelong St. Louis Blues fan Mary Walkenhorst, 95, meets Blues royalty before her very first Blues games.
A twelve-bar jazz blues will usually feature a more sophisticated—or at any rate a different—treatment of the harmony than a traditional blues would, but the underlying features of the standard 12-bar blues progression remain discernible.
Both sides of her first record, " Downhearted Blues " backed with "Gulf Coast Blues", were hits (an earlier recording of "Downhearted Blues" by its co-writer Alberta Hunter had previously been released by Paramount Records ).
By the end of that year, his most successful songs had been published: "Memphis Blues", " Beale Street Blues ", and " Saint Louis Blues ".
Depending on the season, midshipmen wear Summer Whites or Service Dress Blues as their dress uniform, and summer working blues or winter working blues as their daily class uniform.
Formerly titled the W. C. Handy Awards, the International Blues Awards are presented by the Blues Foundation (headquartered in Memphis) for Blues music achievement.
Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, but he took the blues from a regional music style ( Delta blues ) with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music.
Lyrics American blues singer Ma Rainey (1886–1939), the "Mother of the Blues" The lyrics of early traditional blues verses probably often consisted of a single line repeated four times.
Some sources state that the term blues is related to " blue notes ", the flatted, often microtonal notes used in blues, but the Oxford English Dictionary claims that the term blues came first and led to the naming of "blue notes".
This also applies to the St. Louis Blues ice hockey team, even though it is named after the song the " St. Louis Blues ", and thus blues was originally a singular identical to its plural.
He co-founded Blues Gang – Blues Wire which opened for Albert King, Buddy Guy and many, many others.
The Blues scored twice in that blink-and-you-missed-it stretch and then forced overtime, where Robert Thomas scored to give the Blues a 4-3 win and hand the Flames their second straight OT defeat.
After the unveiling of the Blues Trail Maker, there was a reception and a Thanksgiving Blues Bash concert presented by Mr. Sipp last Saturday night in downtown McComb.
At heart, the White Stripes were an electric blues band, albeit an electric blues band with a conceptual aesthetic: at once pared-down and pumped-up.
Blues misery on the big stage: Mitch McGovern is one of the Blues’ best kicks - but he could not answer the call when the big moment came.
Forres' Soul Food Cafe is opening for Main Street Blues who bring their tribute to the three great blues masters - Albert King, Freddy King and BB King.
His 2019 album “Spectacular Glass” made a splash on the Billboard Blues Albums Chart, and a few years before that, blues legend Taj Mahal invited Willis to join him during a 2015 performance.
Mayall launched the Blues Breakers in 1963 as he pioneered the British blues and rock scene.
Once a part of the blues rock outfit The Manish Boys, Bowie and company released their cover of a classic soul-blues song by Bobby Bland titled “I Pity The Fool” back in 1965.
The festival was nominated for the UK Blues best festival of the year at Thursday's running of the UK Blues Awards 2024 in Milton Keynes.
Phrases with blues
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with blues
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the blues 93×
- blues and 22×
- louis blues 11×
- of blues 11×
- blues in 10×
- delta blues 9×
- and blues 9×
- blues were 6×
- blues music 6×
- blues with 5×