black

Example Sentences

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Right now she was even wearing makeup: a tiny smear of brown over her eyes, black on her eyelashes, a smudge of red on her cheeks.

From Literature

It had white shell beaches, pale gold sand, and tumbled black rocks where the spray threw rainbows into the sky.

From Literature

In a video, he said the right side of his heart was “like, black. It’s like done.”

From Los Angeles Times

This forced him to announce he will step down as party leader, opening the way for a potentially divisive contest between a black and white candidate to succeed him.

From BBC

Tributes poured in for the prominent activist who twice ran to be Democrats' presidential nominee, including from the first black US president, Barack Obama.

From BBC