coal-black
Example Sentences
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It is just before sunrise and brightly decorated trucks are already piled high with coal black at a mine in the Talcher district of the eastern state of Odisha.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2021
Tourmaline moves nimbly along the color spectrum, from translucent to coal black.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2016
“The sea raised its great wings, coal black smoke arose from Vesuvius into the blue sky…” 29-year-old Hans Christian Andersen climbed Vesuvius while it was erupting and lived to tell about it.
From Scientific American • Apr. 5, 2014
Salgado's habitual monochrome runs all the way from coal black to silver and burning white, with a thousand tones of grey in between.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2013
One’s hair snow white, the other’s dyed coal black.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
