I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
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The fields and woods were bathed in golden light overlaid with a blue haze of heat.
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Hicks brushed aside the blue haze of his cigar and felt suddenly that he was trying to dispel more than cigar smoke.
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Of sand, surf and sea stretching for mile after mile after mile into the blue haze .
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But by this time the Captain had grown used to living in a blue haze .
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It stretched for miles and became lost in blue haze and mirage lakes.
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The trees of the Dean on the distant bank were taking on a blue haze in the glorious afternoon sun.
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heat
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Beth thought it was something to do with the heat haze but I know a centaur when I see one.
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Lionesses organizing themselves around a herd of food; yellow eyes, long grass, heat haze .
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He was vaguely aware of another figure but the slant of the heat haze made him unsure.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The family is in a haze of shock and grief.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But by this time the Captain had grown used to living in a blue haze .
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During the tight formation take-off his eyes were on Stefan and the Spitfire as they climbed to get on top of the haze .
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In the morning it looks like a smoky haze is hanging over the hills.
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Little orange fires flickered, and gray shapes moved among the dull-green helicopters in the morning haze .
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Of sand, surf and sea stretching for mile after mile after mile into the blue haze .
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Squinting through the haze , Sam tried to place him.
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There was a flash through the haze of dust as Ford knelt to fire the train.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And his meanings were hazed in a golden future.
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But it was all hazed over in endless mists of blue.
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Censers burned, further hazing the air.
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He was the third University of Texas student in nine years to die under suspicions of hazing.
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There was a garden hazed over by sunlight and held in by a dome.