black
Example Sentences
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Four years later, Jackson became the first black candidate to capture a majority of Democratic primary voters under 30.
He used the legal victories of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil-rights leaders to become one of the most significant black leaders of his generation.
Right now she was even wearing makeup: a tiny smear of brown over her eyes, black on her eyelashes, a smudge of red on her cheeks.
From Literature
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It had white shell beaches, pale gold sand, and tumbled black rocks where the spray threw rainbows into the sky.
From Literature
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In a video, he said the right side of his heart was “like, black. It’s like done.”
From Los Angeles Times
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