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 greens of leaves are saturated and varied, as are the blues of water and sky.
  — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 17 Aug. 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, 10 July 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
• Shortly after, a close friend who’d just left rehab, unable to find the blues he was used to, turned to fentanyl powder.
  — Josh Katz, New York Times, 15 July 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
• In tandem with that, Guy believes the blues has to be experienced more so than explained.
  — Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
• Holland holds onto his buoyancy even as his character battles the blues.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 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
• Often, the yellow and green groups have synonyms, the blues have cultural references and the purples have some kind of wordplay involved.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• The Velvet filter softens the overall contrast and wraps the scene in a warmer, vintage-like tone that makes the blues and purples feel richer.
  — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026
• By the end of the 19th century, this melding of musical elements yielded the blues.
  — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
• That same commitment to the organic quality of music informs the way Guy talks about and propagates the blues to this day.
  — Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 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
• And this idea of the reds and the grays teaming up against the blues very much seems to be the strategy that's being pursued in Silicon Valley.
  — Tonya Mosley, NPR, 10 Aug. 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