AZURE in a Sentence

Learn AZURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

25 example sentences for AZURE, such as:

1. It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure heavens.
2. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings of Mechlin lace.
3. Marius' blandishments, all saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue.
4. The peak of Monte Cristo reddened by the burning sun, was seen against the azure sky.
5. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to the azure of the sky.

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 Meanings and Examples of AZURE
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azure
 a.  sky blue; light purplish blue
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
2  The jest falls, no matter where; and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure depths.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
3  It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure heavens.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER
4  The light does not bear away terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
5  A few constellations here and there in the deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
6  Marius' blandishments, all saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
7  This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made him begin to perceive a little azure.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
8  Everywhere around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has set in an unclouded azure sky.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
9  Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings of Mechlin lace.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
10  That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to the azure of the sky.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
11  Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her lover, her husband, her celestial male.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
12  Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky does not prevent rags on man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
13  Before him is a dead sea that stretches in azure calm before the eye; but he who unwarily ventures within its embrace finds himself struggling with a monster that would drag him down to perdition.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
14  They sailed; Edmond was again cleaving the azure sea which had been the first horizon of his youth, and which he had so often dreamed of in prison.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
15  The peak of Monte Cristo reddened by the burning sun, was seen against the azure sky.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
Example Sentence:
1  Go where he will, the wise man is at home His harth the earth, his hall the azure dome.