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    Use "black" in a sentence

    black example sentences

    black


    blacked


    blacking


    blacks


    1. Finally at five pm, during the Aoki set, he felt the phone vibrate, and headed for the nearest security guard that bore the Oodle logo, a rune in black and white


    2. “Yeah, but then she started going steady with that Black fella


    3. That was his name: Black


    4. Kevin pointed to the black and white tattoo trailing up her arm


    5. Yes, I’m a Black Widow


    6. Usually a sentence or equation would start on a white board written in black marker


    7. She turned around to see a woman, about eighteen years old, dressed all in black


    8. May we all show courage in the face of the beast’s black maw and the darkness beyond


    9. Then again, seeing as Violet was only seven, she did not yet have the black market connections to pull off a transaction of that nature


    10. Castile works very well against many types of funguses such as black sooty mold as well as for controlling ants outside

    11. The bear’s black, crumpled eyes stared at him from under the lamp, looking demented and afraid


    12. "What is that? A fish?" I point to the black and white tattoo trailing up her bicep


    13. She wished she could have seen the real thing, not just the dimly-lit base of the tunnel rim and the hewn rock disappearing into the blacker black of the mountainside against the black but star-strewn sky above


    14. ' All she could see was the black shadow of the cliff face against the star-studded night sky


    15. The Widow Black understood that the anticipation was almost always worse than the punishment, and she did her best to make it as much a part of the punishment as it could become


    16. The Widow Black stood up from her throne and took a step toward Scar and the frozen army of androids around him


    17. There are many natural fungicides that are used to control Downey Mildew, Rust, Black Spot, Powdery Mildew and other exotic diseases, but by now you should get the idea that the basis for regaining the health of the roses and other plants is to regain the health of the soil


    18. finally to make the prefect little black dress for her to wear


    19. David rose to his feet and, with the world swimming in black spots, he reached out


    20. the bill in a black plastic wallet and with that delightful hint of gravel in the Greek

    21. there came a darkness, one single patch that moved in synchronicity with the black


    22. The infamous Black Dahlia case of the 1940s and a much more contemporary case from the 90s


    23. black rimmed eyes of the widow through a child’s direct but uncomprehending gaze


    24. A large black dog of undetermined breed lies dreaming in front of the bar, it’s front leg twitching as it sleeps


    25. It was the inferno, the black pit, the desolation


    26. ‘That’s the odd thing about it – this Hansford guy isn’t black … but it transpires that his mother is


    27. Joanna wouldn’t have known there was a risk that the baby would be black … which was the case


    28. The black four-by-four growled


    29. to his shiny black car with a shovel in her hand


    30. Billie sat the kettle on a black range cooker, the sort that should never be

    31. The glowing dot at the end of the streak faded to black, but it was still approaching


    32. He had a thick and detailed metal stick strapped over his shoulders, shiny black low-calf boots and several shiny black canisters strapped to his upper thighs


    33. ‘It’s a black tie do though …


    34. green and black, reflecting the sparkling light of the chandeliers, and if Johnny turned


    35. Twigs snapped under his heel and the black mulch of


    36. I had to climb over a heap of black bags full of clothing to get to the phone … Molly and I have been busy


    37. started to pull it gently through her sleek, long, black hair, how odd that they still


    38. They all wore black


    39. leavening purples of dusk and then into the jet black of the quiet cicada hum that calls


    40. He wore black from head to toe, was tanned and lean under a shock of black,

    41. He wore eye-liner as black as coal,


    42. His short black hair was greased back like a Hollywood wise-guy He was a big man, bigger than Rafa and muscular where Rafa was obese


    43. between the edges of this black speedway, and yet, as he reached terminal velocity,


    44. The man in black paused for a second, and then stood up again, puffing out his


    45. looked up at the giant in black


    46. black, his flowing locks streaming in the winds and currents of calamitous fatality as


    47. Amid the flames and falling limbs, the man in black burned and fevered,


    48. the man dressed in black


    49. The monster in black


    50. The lion in black tossed his mane and stood tall once again, recovering his














































    1. She was trying to move, he was thrusting up into her, if it wasn’t for that action, she probably would have blacked out already


    2. Joseph's body jerked violently again and he blacked out


    3. Alan almost blacked out


    4. “You were at Helgen the day that Ulfric was to be executed…the day that they say the sun was blacked out by a DRAFT


    5. ’ No inertial dampers? He thought of rescinding his request, but before he’d come to a decision on that the ship lurched forward, and Torbin blacked out


    6. But as he probed and poked I blacked out again so I missed being ferried out and hoisted onto the hospital ship in fact the next time I came round they had operated on me and I saw a beautiful face looking down at me


    7. eyes shifted and blacked out from time to time


    8. trying to get up, unsure whether he'd blacked out or not, thinking that he probably hadn't


    9. and blacked out


    10. Mercifully, he blacked out

    11. She must have blacked out


    12. that I was ranting and raving, gibbering unintelligibly and that I blacked out two or three times


    13. That did it, I blacked out


    14. I felt something give, and then I blacked out


    15. That’s the last I remember before I blacked out


    16. I actually blacked out


    17. Then I blacked out


    18. He just had time to see the stars turn into big white and multi-coloured streaks before he blacked out, his sight going into grey, tunnel-like circles with spots floating around in them, and then attenuating into nothingness


    19. That was the point at which I blacked out and an ambulance was called for me


    20. “It seems like only seconds I blacked out

    21. 21 Their faces are blacked


    22. I’m hungry were the last words I recall saying before I shut my eyes for the rest of the day, only this time I blacked out I had no fear, I felt safe, and I knew when I woke up, I’d be much, much better


    23. The jock had stopped resisting, he had blacked out when Ishvara threw him onto the ground, he didn’t know what we were, and most importantly, he was safe


    24. She said she must have blacked out, because the next thing she remembered is that everyone had left the bus, climbed up through the windows, which were now above them, and that my father was striding up and down on top of the seats, looking for his Navy hat


    25. all dead? The video units had blacked out the second week of


    26. same day, the file indicates, a telephone call in connection with this matter was made to an unnamed person (name blacked out)


    27. scared she had blacked out but somehow managed to stay


    28. Joseph blacked out and when his eyes opened again he


    29. The front of the bar had been blacked out, except for a neon sign whose cold blue neon letters flickered 'The Blue Moon' in a scrolling script


    30. She couldn't tell how long she had been tied like this because she had blacked out many hours before

    31. A hand wrapped in her hair kept her face pressed against it, and Angela trying to figure out what was being put inside her where when she blacked out


    32. I tried to rise, and almost blacked out from the pain


    33. “Then you’ve blacked out before?”


    34. Under pressure my mind blacked out and it was not capable of producing not even the most tasteless of the thoughts


    35. He was so pissed when the cameras blacked out and she was gone


    36. A gunmetal van pulls off, windows blacked


    37. All maps had the state of Israel blacked out


    38. "I must have blacked out," said Sam


    39. Something had pulled Jane into the rock; falling and hitting her head, she blacked out


    40. This is what had woken them, they knew—the sun, which they had never seen before; with its center blacked out, the brothers finally saw their world in the light of day

    41. He must have blacked out,


    42. must have blacked out again


    43. He blacked out for a second or two before vision was once again restored


    44. It was a deep silver grey with blacked out windows and


    45. Unable to take the pain and degradation any longer, Marianne finally and mercifully, blacked out……


    46. You're fucking lucky I haven't come over there and blacked your other eye, you bastard


    47. At this point I began to think that I must have had a brain fart, had blacked out, or maybe was hallucinating, because I was pretty sure that I’d lost touch with reality


    48. I heard a blood curdling scream escape from deep within my throat as I blacked out


    49. and a bumpy flight, but than blacked out


    50. Then as he was sick, he just blacked out














































    1. ‘They’re done with blacking, I believe


    2. Big mistake; Greaseball came up to me and kicked me in the head, I started blacking out, then saw the foot coming back at me again


    3. 'They're done with blacking, I believe


    4. She would have liked to black her shoes, but she could not find any blacking


    5. The dullness, the silence, the quasi-nothingness—all are blacking out my thoughts and feelings


    6. experienced frogman, a CPO, realized that he was blacking out and,


    7. On one knee, close to blacking out, he heard a voice


    8. Before blacking out


    9. Thomas is trying to fight blacking out, but is losing the


    10. Blacking out was bliss

    11. The chauffeur feels something sting his cheek and neck before blacking out


    12. She thinks she is blacking out…


    13. Then I felt myself blacking out! While I was blacking out, the next minute I know, is that my soul or spirit is floating around in space! The next minute I know, is that I was in the next building standing on the fifth floor hallway at the receptionist desk with terrible pain in my left leg and foot while my eyes were fixed on the two hospital employees, who claimed to have witnessed me kung fu kicked the storage room door


    14. The rocks cut into me as I scraped along underwater nearly blacking out before Dog pulled me up on his side of the hole


    15. I knew I was close to blacking out…or worse


    16. I remembered the massive headache and blacking out after screaming


    17. I was on the verge of blacking out when Urtholan finally stopped dragging me


    18. My eyes flickered to stay open, as I struggled to keep from blacking out


    19. Feeling on the verge of blacking out Loric fumbled for the activate button and finding it his shaking fingers pressed it hard


    20. It is interesting that that is how he has ended: he hires himself out to read the psalms over the dead, and at the same time he kills rats and makes blacking

    21. Desperately trying to stop himself from blacking out, he reached the top and slumped onto the roof


    22. It was written by a doctor, but I’ve no idea whether it was accurate: the author claimed that blacking out wasn’t simply a matter of forgetting what had happened, but having no memories to forget in the first place


    23. psalms over the dead, and at the same time he kills rats and makes blacking


    24. He was blacking out, but I squeezed his arm and I think the pain brought him back


    25. it, while his daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his age permitted, from the bed-chamber, shut the door behind him, and, purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking boots in the anteroom


    1. With the Staff of Light in his hand, Collin yelled at him, “For Becky and Jared - die you monster!” He shot out a beam from the Staff of Light and it tore thru the blacks wing


    2. James was starting to think that maybe they had stumbled upon another large force of blacks that had been kept hidden till they were up to fighting strength


    3. The girl's make-up is stark and brutal; greys, browns and blacks


    4. Grays and blacks and red spots surged across her vision


    5. Some wrote of contempt for the Publicans, Blacks, Mulattos, and Latinos


    6. In the early thirties, blacks were running government offices


    7. I understand now that blacks used different techniques back then to motivate their children, and verbal intimidation was one of the most popular ones among the uneducated


    8. The blacks, indeed, who make the greater part of the inhabitants, both of the southern colonies upon the continent and of the West India islands, as they are in a state of slavery, are, no doubt, in a worse condition than the poorest people either in Scotland or Ireland


    9. The blacks, accordingly, have almost everywhere their allowance of rum, and of molasses or spruce-beer, in the same manner as the white servants ; and this allowance would not probably be withdrawn, though those articles should be subjected to moderate duties


    10. I cannot help wondering whether she would have been so worshipful, had she been required to spend even one night at the Lubyanka, under the not so tender ministrations of Stalin"s KGB, or was it the NKVD? She had a big thing about the so-called persecution of Blacks in America

    11. blacks, however, remained and danced with joy


    12. Supposed to be impossible to blacks, inasmuch as their ancestors were persecuted, and they lack power


    13. Another black unsung hero of today"s America who has suffered many insults from uneducated blacks and liberal white demagogues, especially with his publishing of „The Content of Their Character


    14. Ironically, this trend appears to be declining among Blacks and Whites, although a reemerging phenomenon appears to be gaining momentum among ―recently‖ arrived ethnic groups spanning second and third generations or perhaps it only seems that way


    15. Nevertheless as we all know racism from blacks on whites is a long hair liberal impossibility and cannot happen and thus it is not happening and thus no use to complain about it


    16. In those days blacks non-South Africans did not count as losses so it made perfect sense to have a black "mercenary" unit operating inside Angola under white officers


    17. (Read: Conservative Blacks!) Although it is not my intention to marginalize the organization‘s historical importance (or value) for peoples of color, its neo-radical, oftentimes racist agenda has long abandoned its intended purpose of advancing civil rights and equal opportunity in favor of consolidating a political power base in a manner that incorrectly defines the ―needs‖ of its ―constituents‖ by propagating the meanest forms of race-baiting that (otherwise) serve to advance political ambition by fanning artificial expectations that have lost much of their historical relevancy


    18. While technically admitted as a free state, California law only barred the enslavement of Blacks, not American Indians


    19. ) He was also a strong believer in slavery and the supremacy of whites over both Blacks and Indians


    20. At the start of the Civil War, there were perhaps 4,000,000 Blacks forcibly enslaved, one third of the southern population

    21. Monroe was also a leader in the American Colonization Society, helping send several thousand Free Blacks and former slaves to Liberia


    22. California was admitted as a free state, though in practice that meant no slavery for Blacks, while Indians were widely enslaved


    23. The second was a speech about “young bucks” (a derogatory term for young Blacks) buying steaks on welfare


    24. (Blacks use all drugs, including alcohol, at a lower rate than whites


    25. O‘Connor‘s morbid fascination with Race, while making for ―good‖ copy, is something any sober-minded individual should consider troubling if not offensive to Whites and Blacks alike


    26. Vengeful white supremacists, including President Andrew Johnson himself, were happy to see terrorism during Reconstruction against Blacks trying to assert civil rights and anti racist whites allied with them


    27. The Body Count: At least 50,000 deaths in the five years following the Civil War, Blacks, anti racist whites, and Mexicans in Texas all murdered by white supremacists, mostly ex Confederates, with a body count over a dozen times higher than that of Al Qaeda and its affiliates


    28. He was the last US President to be a slave owner, and as congressman led a successful effort to strip Free Blacks in Tennessee of the vote


    29. His second act was to declare the matter of Blacks voting was to be left to states, now to come back under the control of pardoned Confederates


    30. These ranged from generals upholding the law in southern states to Blacks working for the post office, one of the few secure refuges for minorities before the end of segregation

    31. Blacks had to sign work contracts they could not quit


    32. Blacks were forbidden to rent or own their own farms, carry guns, and barred from almost all schools


    33. In some cases the laws even required Blacks to get off the sidewalk if whites were on it, address all whites as “sir,” and barred looking whites in the eye or shaking their hand


    34. Across the south, mob violence tried to keep both Blacks and anti racist whites from voting, and intimidate anyone trying to change the old ways


    35. The first year of Reconstruction, more whites were lynched than Blacks


    36. To him, Blacks were “inferior to the White Man in intellect


    37. Again and again, Johnson and other racists claimed that any civil rights laws were anti white and thus racist, that whites were the true victims, and that Blacks were inherently violent and had to be kept in line with greater violence up to and including murder


    38. In spite of Johnson, Congress, Union generals, abolitionists, the Freedmen's Bureau, and newly freed Blacks exercising their civil rights could point to some accomplishments


    39. Sixteen Blacks were elected to US Congress, some of them former slaves who had taught themselves to read only a few years before


    40. Hundreds of Blacks were elected to Republican Conventions and in local offices

    41. One out nine Blacks in the cities owned land, homes or businesses


    42. His rebels were mostly Afro-Cubans, and the Cuban Revolution succeeded in ending job discrimination, with Blacks especially prominent in the military today


    43. Reagan also created one of the most vicious stereotypes, the myth of the “welfare queen,” that Blacks on welfare cheated and lived well at government expense


    44. did pander to racists with his notorious Willie Horton campaign ads, promoting stereotypes of Blacks as dangerous criminals


    45. Where once Blacks and Irish had worked together, lived in the same neighborhoods, and even intermarried, Irish-American bigotry against Blacks became common as a way to distinguish themselves and try to avoid prejudice from whites


    46. In the Civil War draft riots in New York City, Irish mobs targeted Blacks as well as draft authorities


    47. Plantation owners recruited labor from China, Japan, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Blacks from the US


    48. The former hate Lincoln because they hate Blacks and/or defend slavery and the white supremacist Confederacy created solely to defend enslavement based on race


    49. This includes a higher death rate than either poor whites or free Blacks


    50. Yet by a mixture of eloquence, political skill, and canny coalition building, Lincoln united Congress and elements of the US public, from Abolitionist churches to German free thinking radicals to free Blacks to working class southern whites














































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    Synonyms for "black"

    black blackness inkiness african-american negro negroid shirley temple shirley temple black joseph black lightlessness pitch blackness total darkness blacken melanise melanize pitch-black pitch-dark blackened smutty calamitous disastrous fatal fateful dark sinister disgraceful ignominious inglorious opprobrious shameful bleak dim black-market bootleg contraband smuggled grim mordant shadowy murky gloomy cloudy overcast dusky raven ebony coal black jet black inky sable swarthy dismal forbidding ominous sombre doleful threatening melancholy evil infamous wicked villainous fiendish monstrous traitorous diabolic dark-skinned coloured dingy dirty sooty soiled stained

    "black" definitions

    the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)


    total absence of light


    British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)


    popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)


    a person with African ancestry,


    (board games) the darker pieces


    black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)


    make or become black


    being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light


    of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin


    marked by anger or resentment or hostility


    offering little or no hope


    stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable


    (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin


    (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood


    extremely dark


    harshly ironic or sinister


    (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading


    distributed or sold illicitly


    (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame


    (of coffee) without cream or sugar


    soiled with dirt or soot