How to Use inkwell in a Sentence

inkwell

noun

• One of the tools used for this task involved the inkwell or ink horn.
  — Charlene Paparizos, cleveland.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• The two inkwells have three pieces each: bottom, well and lid.
  — OregonLive.com, 4 June 2017
• An inkwell stares at me with one black eye, with a glint in its pupil.
  — Vladimir Nabokov, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
• The other, a fox coat, is jet-black, dark like an inkwell, and reaches mid-thigh with two silver buttons.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2019
• Those items include a griddle, buttons, marbles, a spoon and an inkwell.
  — Jonathan Hunley, Washington Post, 25 June 2017
• The classroom is re-created with great attention to detail, right down to the apple on the teacher’s desk and the blue-black stains around the pupils’ inkwells.
  — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• One of the show’s centerpieces is a bust by Salvador Dalí of a mannequin with a baguette (topped with an inkwell) balanced on her head and two corn cobs around her neck.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2017
• But the inkwell would be bored without a quill, the quill without paper, the paper without a desk, the desk without a room, the room without a house, the house without a town.
  — Vladimir Nabokov, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
• Then Lazlo Biro patented the ballpoint pen in 1938 and inkwells rapidly became a quaint reminder of the past.
  — OregonLive.com, 4 June 2017
• The cartoonist, and the undisclosed person in Douglas County who altered the image, had to know that using Floyd’s death as a narrative would allow the issue of race to spill from the inkwell onto the drawing pad.
  — Sam Adams, The Denver Post, 17 July 2020
• Meanwhile, an inkwell is topped by France's national animal, the Gallic rooster.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 29 June 2017
• Encourage the production of marvelous examples of design, like inkwells and cigar boxes.
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The museum also owns 11 of Zelda's paintings, personal belongings like an inkwell and beaded purse, and first editions of Fitzgerald's novels.
  — Beth J. Harpaz, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
• Primary simple inkwells were referred to as standishes.
  — Charlene Paparizos, cleveland.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• There's also a nice eatery here, Collections Cafe, decorated with Chihuly's personal collections: fish decoys, pocket knives, inkwells, etc.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 29 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024