blacken

Example Sentences

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The door that Glenn was closing hung loose in his blackened hand.

From Literature

It was the kind that the clans call the smoke-frost: an icy breath that descends from the High Mountains at the start of winter, blackening berries and sending small creatures scuttling for their burrows.

From Literature

AFP footage taken from a plane showed it listing onto one side, parts of it blackened and seriously damaged by fire, with two holes either side in the middle of the hull.

From Barron's

The gold-plated figure she’d won for “Fantastic Beasts” was warped and blackened by heat, its surface blistered and twisted like something pulled from a furnace.

From Los Angeles Times

He also explained how there was a "blackened appearance" on both knees as well as "an obvious swelling" in the middle of his forehead.

From BBC