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raven

adjective as in black

adjective as in ebony

Strong matches

Weak match

adjective as in jet

adjective as in sable

noun as in game

noun as in quarry

noun as in plunder

noun as in stormy petrel

noun as in prey

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Example Sentences

One stanza from the poem Grímnismál also mentions how Odin worries about the ravens not returning to him.

It also often explores the relationships that corvids—a family of birds including crows, magpies, and ravens—develop with human beings.

I shall do my best to that end, whether we’re talking about humans, chimpanzees, ravens, or bird of paradise plants.

The work I did was terribly exciting, for me at least, and also very physically taxing—from the high Arctic to the equator to the ravens.

One of his assignments was to recite Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.

The Baltimore Raven was indefinitely suspended but even one of his teammates suited up after punching a girlfriend in the neck.

Berney then went on to say that he considered the former Baltimore Raven to be “a model citizen and a role model.”

When the raven-man promises Bran that he will “fly,” does he mean the boy is about to morph into mutant bird as well?

And she has introduced them to the raven himself, who now appears to be a bearded old man.

But I really just told the best story for Days of Future Past, and Mystique/Raven is a big part of that story.

The sunken eyes, the tangled masses of raven hair, the look of exhaustion and hopeless woe.

The dwarf who had watched her came back again on his raven followed this time by a crowd of little men.

For, singular, uncanny circumstance, this was a one-eyed raven which sat upon the shoulder of his one-eyed master!

He could not restrain a shriek as he did so, but he still kept hold of the raven, and made a wild grasp with his disengaged hand.

Sin Sin Wa never moved, and the raven, settling down upon the Chinaman's shoulder, closed his serviceable eye.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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