blackish
Example Sentences
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The prosecution had claimed the stains were reddish when the clothes were recovered - but the defence argued that blood would have turned blackish after being immersed in miso for so long.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024
Fresh from the interior of a planet, magma usually forms a blackish rock called basalt—not granite, says planetary geoscientist Harry McSween of the University of Tennessee.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 12, 2023
John Romero, a division director with the state Transportation Department, described the material that needs to be removed as blackish muck.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
“Through that window I saw my first palm tree, not six feet away … but the palm was blackish at its branches, stained by carbon monoxide coming out of the Third Street tunnel.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
The two older ladies started shrieking when they got a look at my face, which had bloomed into a hellish palette of grayish yellow and blackish purple.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
