How to Use black in a Sentence

black

1 of 3 adjective
  • The black bands loop through the shoelace slots in all types of shoes.
    Olivia Evans, womenshealthmag.com, 17 May 2023
  • On top of the tiny shorts, Kendall pulled up a cheeky black thong.
    Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 4 May 2023
  • The sinkhole looked like a black wound in a green field.
    Allison Keeley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Use a hand blender to quickly make a soup of the black beans.
    Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Or from one of the black and white sequences in Part 8?
    Joanna Robinson, HWD, 10 July 2017
  • The room, the world, is nothing but black except for the stairs.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The heavy black fringe felt cool and silky against my bare legs.
    Christine Lennon, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The pig with white hair and black spots stumbles to her hooves.
    Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The units are size 3.7 and 5.8 qt. and were sold in black, gray, white, blue, or red.
    Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The Duchess looked chic in a tuxedo-style black dress for that event.
    Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 16 Jan. 2019
  • Oh, and don’t forget the black garlic home fries on the side.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
  • More than one-third of the Seguin student body is black.
    Mark Heim, AL.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The singer paired a purple fuzzy coat with a black lace crop top and pants.
    ELLE, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Walker came away with a cut and a black, bruised and swollen eye.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Her bangs are curled around her brows and pinned with a sweet black bow for a retro vibe.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Overhead, a canopy of stars stretched across the bluish-black winter sky.
    Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2023
  • In other clips, black bears wander up and down the path.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Big brown eyes, a box cut of curly black hair and a sweet, charming smile.
    Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2019
  • While chicken cooks, mash black beans with a fork in a small bowl.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The neutral white and black pattern will match any style of decor.
    Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Don’t eat garlic with fuzzy gray, black, or blue spots on the clove.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The bag is on sale in three colors: black, orange, and pink.
    Andie Kanaras, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Sports reporters of the day make no mention of the fact that all the Rens are black and the All-Stars are all white.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • His look was finished off with navy socks and black loafers.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Its white and light-brown feathers were caked with black crude.
    Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In the first shot, both men were decked out in black tactical gear.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
  • Scores of others were left as black and yellow corpses on the ground.
    Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The pieces Lopez wears also come in black, turquoise and bright orange.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The suspect wore all black clothing and his blond hair was slicked back.
    cleveland, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Her look included a holographic silver dress with black trimming, a pleated miniskirt and a deep V-neckline.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
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black

2 of 3 noun
  • The wall was painted in black.
  • She was dressed in black.
  • That left the school about $1 million in the black for the year.
    Freep.com, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The sky is clear and moonless, the stars sharp in the black.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The slippers come in black—and the navy that’s shown—and run small.
    Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 28 Oct. 2022
  • That will lead to a draw, which is the best black can do here.
    Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2022
  • And all the woodwork in the house is painted a brown-black.
    Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The spacecraft had found a white dot on a field of black.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Yes, the night is pitch-black, but the stars shine all the more brightly for it.
    TheWeek, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Or maybe this is where this movie starts to fade to black.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Most of the ones at the Phillips are in shades of white, beige or rose; two are dusty black.
    Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The Christmas star turned to ash like Mary dressed in black.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
  • This was the year drillers were going to surge into the black.
    Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
  • At the School for Evil, students are all dark-haired and dressed in black.
    Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • By game time, the crowd at the sleek black trailed had only swelled to five or six.
    Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Williams, who also is black, says the center will tell the truth about the war.
    USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
  • One legacy of apartheid is that many blacks live far from where the jobs are.
    The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Cedrick is black and has brown eyes and black braided hair.
    Dallas News, 10 July 2019
  • His portraits have a rich tonal range, from the whitest white to grays to the blackest black.
    Redeat Wondemu, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Start with a white base over the entire face, then outline the eyes in black.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Propane: Makes lots of black smoke and soot—good for outdoor fires.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2018
  • Roll 5/8-inch ball of black; press onto front of body to form head.
    Megan Fulweiler, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Not these ladies, who proved that all things alabaster may be the new black.
    Carson Griffith, Town & Country, 1 May 2014
  • Two people, a man, and a woman dressed all in black, got out of a car.
    Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Use colors of this chakra: white with a bit of gray and sometimes a hint of black.
    Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Even the Google doodle turned a respectful black for the day.
    Danica Kirka, Mike Corder and Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The clogs are now sold out in taupe on the Kohl’s website but are still available in black.
    Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • For now, the dogfights for the blooms are limited to this year’s black-chinned young.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The kicks are anchored by a muted black with red accents throughout.
    Dana Givens, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Protected him, too, though her thrifty purchase of white hockey skates instead of the standard black wasn’t a hit.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
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black

3 of 3 verb
  • He blacked his boots with polish.
  • Labor union members have blacked the company.
  • The scene then fades to black and a textbox appears at the bottom of the screen.
    Washington Post, 20 July 2021
  • Lisco: What’s the point of cutting to black at that point?
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The giant white ball of light at the top of the dome slowly faded to black.
    New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The video fades to black and the title Harry’s House is revealed.
    Izzy Colón, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • But as the show fades to black, the Byrdes are in surprisingly good shape.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 31 May 2022
  • Today is the first day of the rest of your (storm-tossed, wind-swept, blacked-out, hot, humid) life.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 1 June 2018
  • One is struck on the head and dragged into the grave, still glowing with life until the earth blacks him out.
    Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Vision steadily blurs or narrows, and for some, the world fades to black.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2011
  • Three right lanes were blocked, with traffic blacked up to Deer Springs Road by the evening commute.
    David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The show cuts to black with Kendall starring blankly at the river ahead, but Strong tried to take things further.
    Variety, NBC News, 5 June 2023
  • In other words, will black and brown doulas be displaced?
    Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 14 June 2018
  • Would black Justin Bieber reappear like a unicorn in the forest of our tangled lives?
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Its rhythm was abnormal — that’s why she’d blacked out.
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Black-and-White didn't respond to a request for comment.
    Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
  • Choose from five color options, from ivory to chestnut to black.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2023
  • While you may be drawn straight to black, don’t overlook the bombshell red or hot pink colors (there are a few more to choose from, too).
    Jill Schildhouse, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But the librarian would always find them and black them out.
    courant.com, 18 July 2019
  • Or did the aforementioned editor cut to black each time?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • Jane smiles, perhaps a little unsure, and the scene cuts to black before Jane answers.
    Richard Newby, Vulture, 8 July 2022
  • When the pandemic hit the US in March 2020, concert halls fell silent, stages faded to black and livelihoods hung in the balance.
    William Deshazer For Cnn, CNN, 7 May 2022
  • For decades, the artist was partial to black in his paintings, but the works in the show make use of color — most memorably, a yolky shade of yellow.
    New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • When the packet arrived two days after Christmas, much of it was blacked out and useless.
    Mike Hendricks, kansascity.com, 25 June 2017
  • Tate realizes the shell in Kya's notebook is Chase's, and like in the book, throws the shell into the water to hide the evidence before the film fades to black.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022
  • The overhead light suddenly drops to black to a soundtrack of loud and startling applause.
    Vulture, 26 Jan. 2023
  • After 13 seconds that feel far longer, her frightened gaze fixes on the camera, and the awful scene fades to black.
    Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • The clip offers the first glimpse of the film’s recreation of the photo, with Smith as Peter revealing his scarred back to a camera as the trailer fades to black.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
  • There was no game to show, no update on Hamlin’s condition to share, no cutting to black.
    Devin Gordon, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Before the film fades to black, viewers are taken back to the clearing in the woods, where the minari continues to grow in abundance on a stream of water.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022

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