How to Use cyan in a Sentence

cyan

noun
  • Black, navy, red, orange and cyan draw them in.
    — Ryan Brennan may 1, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • The plane would have a new red, white and blue color scheme as opposed to its current cyan, white and blue.
    — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
  • Attractive shades include black, navy, red, orange and cyan.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
  • The essie Nail Polish in off-beat chic is a gorgeous cyan that is actually long-lasting.
    — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Starfish are the color of warm skies at midnight; sea snakes, banded in silver and shimmering black, wriggle towards the soft cyan sea.
    — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Now Formlabs offers a third choice with Tough Resin, which creates smooth cyan chains strong enough to hoist cinder blocks.
    — Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 30 June 2015
  • The exterior will get a fresh coat of paint to match the company's cyan and charcoal colors; signage will be going up, too.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2020
  • There is a printer nozzle check there that prints a small pattern of lines from each of the printer's four ink nozzles (black, cyan, magenta and yellow).
    — Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The four-bedroom, multi-tiered mansion is perched above cyan-blue waters, with access to the ocean, a private coral pool, and an infinity pool.
    — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The cobblestone streets and passageways are framed by historic buildings all painted in varying shades of cyan, powder blue, and periwinkle.
    — Megan Barber, Curbed, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Can't Control Me (a subtle cyan), and Achievement Unlocked (a pretty lilac).
    — Sarah Toscano, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Indeed, while Piccioli paid his respects, his own touches could also be felt in the pops of violet, cyan and highlighter yellow.
    — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Classic Nina Ricci cheetah and tiger prints were splashed against cyan blues, while all-black outfits were rich in texture and depth for a more contemporary look.
    — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But the colors, ranging from cyan to deepest cobalt, owe more to the geology of the archipelago and to the reflective quality of its pearlescent white sand.
    — Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Gels in cyan, magenta and yellow have been inserted into openings between the linear and triangular structural beams holding up the roof.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The color of the object is determined by the wavelength of the light—for example, green light is absorbed by magenta dye, leaving yellow and cyan, resulting in a green object.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The acrylic-yarn palette of fuchsia, cyan, chartreuse, and orange is closer to a slot machine mid-spin or a glitch on a TV screen than to traditional patterning.
    — María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Cast in aluminum with black powder coating, the sculpture is tinged at the edges with the printing colors of cyan, magenta and yellow as though this representation of a person is beginning to come into full color.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • On a chair constructed from four square steel-tubing frames, nylon webbing in various shades (cyan, khaki, optic white, vermilion) creates a seat with a similarly unpredictable checkered design.
    — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
  • There’s also a special edition Pokémon Sword and Shield version, all releasing this fall, which will feature cyan and magenta buttons with Pokémon designs along its gray body.
    — Brittany Vincent, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2019
  • For instance, Actinomyces bacteria, in red, grow close to the epithelial tissue of the tongue, shown in gray, while Rothia bacteria, in cyan, form long patches between other communities.
    — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 24 Mar. 2020
  • For the ’60s-era chapter of the story, Prieto modeled his palette after vintage Ektachrome film, which skews toward cyan and blue-green, and translates, Prieto says, into colder blacks and cooler shadows.
    — Hugh Hart, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Four colors redefine viewing The 116UXS flagship television introduces RGB MiniLED evo, a four-primary backlight system that adds cyan to the traditional red, green, and blue structure.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026

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