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Example Sentences

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Nevertheless: “Once more you drown one of your own in the inky depths of democracy,” Cumming intones after Funches poignantly exits.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

Gonzales wouldn’t greet her first-graders until 7:55, but she stepped out under an inky sky and left in her Toyota Prius at 6 o’clock sharp.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

A signal flare arcs into the inky sky – and illuminates Chinese soldiers who have spilled out of the boat and amassed on the beach.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

Hamlet-figures dressed in inky black, they are both processing loss.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

She holds her head high, the elegance of her neck heightened by the inky fall of her hair.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir