black eye
Example Sentences
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She just stood there in the moonlight with a warm little smile on her face, staring out over the river, her black eyes glowing like black haws in the morning dew.
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Last to take shape were four small paws and two beady black eyes.
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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.
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She had shiny black hair and kind black eyes that crinkled at the corners when she smiled, and she smiled a lot.
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He hit his head on the bedpost and got a dandy black eye.
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