sable
Example Sentences
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In contrast, some parts of the tarantula feel almost like sable fur.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025
The cookbook offers helpful guides to the different varieties of herring—from New Catch to schmaltz—smoked salmon and specialty fish such as sturgeon and sable and caviar.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
The four largest herbivores wearing GPS collars -- nyala, kudu, sable and elephant -- had no fatalities.
From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2023
One of the ferrets is described as a sable polecat ferret, and the other is a silver ferret.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023
They melt in glass skin-tone pots creating every pigment imaginable: ink black, sandy beige, eggshell white, desert brown, lemony cream, soft sable, brown sugar syrup, and more.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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