Example sentences for: blues

How can you use “blues” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The main venues for major performances are the Concertgebouw near Museumplein for orchestral and chamber concerts; Muziek Theater on the banks of the Amstel, which is home to the National Ballet and also holds performances of opera; Bimhius in Oude Schans  — a Jazz/Blues venue; and the Koninklijk Theatre Carré near Magere Brug on the Amstel, which hosts musicals.

  • Rhythm 'n' blues (the music of the black South) and other manifestations of the black "sound," like urban doo-wop, came to the attention of whites--like the record mogul Ahmet Ertegun in Washington, the songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (who wrote "Hound Dog" and "Kansas City") in Los Angeles, DJ Alan Freed in Cleveland, and Elvis Presley in Memphis, who was totally immersed in black music almost by accident.

  • Movie -- Varsity Blues ;

  • The opening is teasingly misleading, as if to make you think you're seeing The Gingerbread Man II : In Holly Springs, a small, Mississippi cotton town, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton) staggers out of a blues joint semi-drunk, then drops his bottle of bourbon when a police car glides ominously past.

  • Get those baby blues right down the throats of the people watching in the grand jury.


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