sable

Example Sentences

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“How beautiful she is in her shining raiment,” he rhapsodizes, “her birch-bark body, her sable bodice, her white cravat, her goffered ruff.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

In contrast, some parts of the tarantula feel almost like sable fur.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

The four largest herbivores wearing GPS collars -- nyala, kudu, sable and elephant -- had no fatalities.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2023

One of the ferrets is described as a sable polecat ferret, and the other is a silver ferret.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023

All that host was clad in sable, dark as the night.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien