black eye
Example Sentences
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Getting off on the wrong foot was a Mom catchphrase—that was what she’d said about Jonah and Billy Barton in second grade, when Jonah came home with a black eye.
From Literature
She had shiny black hair and kind black eyes that crinkled at the corners when she smiled, and she smiled a lot.
From Literature
He hit his head on the bedpost and got a dandy black eye.
From Literature
The opossum closes its jaw, tilts its head, and considers me with its bulbous black eyes.
From Literature
The retraction is also a black eye for the Network for Greening the Financial System, a group of central banks and financial regulators that incorporated the study’s projections into its bank climate stress test scenarios.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
