black eye
Example Sentences
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But when the office market crashed during the pandemic, Breit became a black eye for Blackstone and a sore spot with its investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
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 The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
He recovers from that brush with death by slapping bandages on his face and sunglasses over his black eye to downplay the damage, a la Jack Nicholson’s Jake in “Chinatown.”
From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025
On the same March 3 morning, the county asked for help identifying a wisp-thin elderly man with a grizzled beard and swollen black eye who’d been found in Monterey Park’s Edison Trails Park.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2025
That evening, Marlena conceals her black eye with pancake makeup and does her liberty act.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
