Cerulean is an English word with synonyms like azure or chromatic. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cerulean in a sentence
Cerulean meaning
- A greenish-blue color.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.
Using Cerulean
- The main meaning on this page is: A greenish-blue color. | Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.
- Useful related words include: azure, sky-blue, bright blue, chromatic.
- In the example corpus, cerulean often appears in combinations such as: cerulean blue, the cerulean, cerulean waters.
Context around Cerulean
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cerulean
- In this selection, "cerulean" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, film, skies, watercolour, blue, waters and cave stand out and add context to how "cerulean" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a cerulean blue spaghetti and a watercolour cerulean blue. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cerulean" sits close to words such as aaj, aal and aalto, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cerulean
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cerulean Blue represents fidelity. (4 words)
The Cerulean Cave in hides in plain sight. (8 words)
A cerulean blue spaghetti-strap dress in a plastic sleeve. (10 words)
Brock (from the original series) soon catches up with Ash, but Misty has returned to Cerulean City to tend to her duties as a gym leader (Misty, along with other recurring characters, appears in the spin-off series Pokémon Chronicles ). (40 words)
The best party of my life, picturesque Santa Ana nights, swimming with my best friends under the salty, cerulean water of Newport Beach — all these memories are inscribed with summer sunlight onto the back of my eyelids like constellations. (39 words)
In his La Gare Saint-Lazare, the grey smoke, vapour and dark shadows are actually composed of mixtures of bright pigment, including cobalt blue, cerulean blue, synthetic ultramarine, emerald green, Guillet green, chrome yellow, vermilion and ecarlate red. (38 words)
A celebration of Italian design, heritage and craftsmanship, it’s brightening up autumn with the Fall Winter 2019 collection – who doesn’t need an injection of cyan, cerulean and yellow in their wardrobe right now? (35 words)
It’scuter than it needs to be—check out those cerulean drawer pulls! (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Her other credits include roles in Where The Heart Is, Bodies, In The Dark, Love, Lies and Records, Still Open All Hours and the short film Cerulean.
The all-white facade of the Pilibhit House, with its cerulean blue and gold interiors, resonates with the city and the river that flows through it.
The Cerulean Cave in hides in plain sight.
A cerulean blue spaghetti-strap dress in a plastic sleeve.
Sitting on Kaanapali Beach, it can feel like you were plucked from everyday life and dropped into a postcard showing off the sunny skies, cerulean waters and golden sands of Maui.
Cerulean Blue represents fidelity.
Dhawan suggests using three of the hues in the collection for mixing and matching — Transcend, a mid-tone sandy brown; Big Cypress, a shaded ginger with persimmon undertones; and Misty Aqua, a watercolour cerulean blue.
I skied the hills of the landscape under a cerulean blue sky among stately trees and crystal white snow in a world of beauty.
The two of them end up having a silly battle in the Cerulean Gym to sort this situation out.
With the majestic landscape spread out before her — the cerulean waters of Gardner Bay, the splashes of red from the Sally Lightfoot crabs — the future looked bright.
A celebration of Italian design, heritage and craftsmanship, it’s brightening up autumn with the Fall Winter 2019 collection – who doesn’t need an injection of cyan, cerulean and yellow in their wardrobe right now?
He was also previously a Director at Threshold Pharmaceuticals and Cerulean Pharmaceuticals.
It’scuter than it needs to be—check out those cerulean drawer pulls!
This guy, found on the Cerulean Cape, is a Pokémaniac who is working on Pokémon teleportation.
She misses swimming in the warm cerulean waters and the close relationship she had with neighbors.
The best party of my life, picturesque Santa Ana nights, swimming with my best friends under the salty, cerulean water of Newport Beach — all these memories are inscribed with summer sunlight onto the back of my eyelids like constellations.
Bermuda's pink sand beaches and clear, cerulean blue ocean waters are popular with tourists.
Brock (from the original series) soon catches up with Ash, but Misty has returned to Cerulean City to tend to her duties as a gym leader (Misty, along with other recurring characters, appears in the spin-off series Pokémon Chronicles ).
He mixed mostly traditional colors to make the pink and crimson; synthetic ultramarine, cerulean blue, and titanium white, but he also used two new organic reds, Naphtol and Lithol.
In his La Gare Saint-Lazare, the grey smoke, vapour and dark shadows are actually composed of mixtures of bright pigment, including cobalt blue, cerulean blue, synthetic ultramarine, emerald green, Guillet green, chrome yellow, vermilion and ecarlate red.
Common combinations with cerulean
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: