yale blue

Example Sentences

• "You could call the shade Yale blue, presidential blue, or even a dark steel blue. Regardless, it conveyed the right amount of cheeriness for the occasion and reverence for a historic moment in the British royal family's history."
• "Neither Harvard crimson nor Yale blue courses through my veins — I am an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — but I was at Harvard for the academic year 1968-69 on a Nieman Fellowship, awarded each year to a dozen American journalists in the hope that using the university’s vast resources might help them improve their professional skills."
• "For a talented senior class, the weekend marks the final hurrah in Yale blue. Trumbull’s Simon Whiteman, first baseman Griffin Dey and pitcher Scott Politz should all be selected in next month’s Major League Baseball draft."
• "The 49-year-old put on an elegant display in a two-toned blue, one-shoulder gown. With a maya blue bodice and yale blue skirt, the pleated dress featured a bow like wrap on her left shoulder."
• "But Yale had certain advantages. Its nonprofit status sheltered it from taxes on income. It could access top outside fund managers. It had alumni in high places in business and finance who, like Swensen, bled Yale blue."
• "While today the courts on the fifth floor sport a fresh Yale Blue coat of paint and glass backboards, in the 1970s they were drafty, completely wooden and nearly uninhabitable in the hotter months."