How to Use the blues in a Sentence

the blues

plural noun
  • But the blues… blues will give you back your soul.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But your version was just the blues, right?
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
  • My favorite hack to beat the blues on a cold winter’s day?
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
  • People looked down on blues players, but the blues was these men’s church.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
  • For Marks, the blues isn’t about lamentation.
    — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • One of the oldest icebergs that has ever been tracked is feeling the blues.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 14 Jan. 2026
  • What was so dope about diving into the blues was hearing their stories.
    — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The Benetton Group is feeling the blues.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Food stands also debuted that year, with ribs sizzling along with the blues licks.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Books will be intelligent, music could be the blues.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The reds and oranges are from iron; the blues and bright greens are from copper; manganese produces black and brown.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The trio showcased the blues track, performed by Caton in the movie, alongside a group of back-up singers.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The Knicks gave Philadelphia the blues for four games.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • In the case of Delta Slim, Lindo immersed himself in the world of the blues.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The Allman Brothers were mostly white guys with long hair and hippie clothes who played the blues.
    — Steve Bloom, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026
  • After a quarter-century as a band, the blues-rock duo offers its second set of covers in just five years.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 May 2026
  • The music is tricky, with plenty of stylistic switches — a spiritual note one moment, the blues the next.
    — Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2026
  • Big shoutout to Ludwig Göransson for tying the blues in with the modern music and bringing it forward to the future.
    — From Staff Reports, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 1 Feb. 2026
  • By the end of the 19th century, this melding of musical elements yielded the blues.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • And the Gershwin music mirrored his own eclectic tastes, infused with jazz, gospel and the blues, in addition to classical.
    — Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2026
  • The inside of the blues club—located in Clarksdale, the birthplace of the blues—is decked out in red neon signs, posters, and all kinds of memorabilia.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Beale Street in Memphis is best known for the blues, but the city was also the cradle of soul and rock ‘n’ roll and is one of the best places on the planet to catch live tunes today.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
  • Big shoutout to Memphis, Mississippi and Louisiana, all the blues artists.
    — From Staff Reports, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Without the blues, there would be no jazz, R&B, rock and roll or hip-hop — in other words, American culture would look very different today.
    — Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 25 June 2026
  • Probably because at the time many of the time signatures and chordal progressions that Miles used were over the head of a young guitar player still functioning in the blues and folk idioms.
    — Steve Baltin, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • Santa Cruz, a hunk of volcanic rock wedged between the blues of sky and ocean and inhabited by over a thousand scrappy species of creatures and plants, feels magnificently wild.
    — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Set the scene Gardiner House makes a good first impression; its big-windowed, white-clapboard, three-story facade set against the blues of the sky above and yacht marina behind.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
  • Soulful genres like the blues, country, bluegrass, and rock and roll were all born in the South, and this musical heritage, in many ways, has been kept alive by the region’s various live music venues.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, his tactile upright stylings meet the clack of Dannie Richmond’s drums, fostering a clattering percussiveness borrowed from the blues.
    — Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Longtime fans may have had already made the pilgrimage to the cinema great’s Ground Zero in the Mississippi Delta, where the blues first flourished.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026

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