black eye

Example Sentences

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The retraction is also a black eye for the Network for Greening the Financial System, a group of central banks and financial regulators that incorporated the study’s projections into its bank climate stress test scenarios.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many have paid off with tens of billions of dollars in profits—including early bets on Yahoo, Alibaba and the chip company Arm Holdings—while others have led to costly black eyes, such as WeWork.

From The Wall Street Journal

Four hungry black eyes blink up at us.

From Literature

Behind the windburn, Edward Ashton’s cheeks were bone white, and his black eyes glittered with fever.

From Literature

The Berlin Wall was becoming a real black eye.

From Literature