coal-black
Example Sentences
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It is just before sunrise and brightly decorated trucks are already piled high with coal black at a mine in the Talcher district of the eastern state of Odisha.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2021
Tourmaline moves nimbly along the color spectrum, from translucent to coal black.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2016
“The sea raised its great wings, coal black smoke arose from Vesuvius into the blue sky…” 29-year-old Hans Christian Andersen climbed Vesuvius while it was erupting and lived to tell about it.
From Scientific American • Apr. 5, 2014
Lane Hardy, "a tightly muscled guy, in faded jeans", sports a derby hat which, "tilted on his coal black hair", makes him resemble "a carnival barker from an old-time newspaper strip".
From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2013
It hovers above me, coal black eyes bulge out of its sockets, and large, flat nostrils flare from his fat, furry face.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
