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
• The four true teas include green, black, oolong, and white.
  — Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Ld, Verywell Health, 20 Mar. 2023

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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
• Now many in the design world say there is a new neutral in town: black.
  — Elizabeth Mayhew, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• The boost for these applicants is as high as the one given to blacks.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019

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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

Last Updated: 9 May 2024