(~r, ~st, ~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Something that is ~ is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
There were swallows in the cloudless ~ sky...
She fixed her pale ~ eyes on her father’s.
...colourful ~s and reds.
COLOUR
2.
The ~s is a type of music which was developed by African American musicians in the southern United States. It is characterized by a slow tempo and a strong rhythm.
N-PLURAL: the N
3.
If you have got the ~s, you feel sad and depressed. (INFORMAL)
Interfering in-laws are the prime sources of the ~s.
N-PLURAL: the N
4.
If you are feeling ~, you are feeling sad or depressed, often when there is no particular reason. (INFORMAL)
There’s no earthly reason for me to feel so ~.
= down
ADJ: v-link ADJ
5.
Blue films, stories, or jokes are about sex.
...a secret stash of porn mags and ~ movies.
ADJ: ADJ n
6.
If something happens out of the ~, it happens unexpectedly.
One of them wrote to us out of the ~ several years later.
PHRASE
7.
~ moon: see moon