blacken
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The herb has been used for more than 1,000 years and has traditionally been associated with "blacken hair and nourish essence."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026
These incidents may temporarily blacken the eyes of the NBA and Major League Baseball but sports gambling is here to stay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
If the VX4 ever were to become the mass public transport that Vertical wants it to be, it might literally blacken the skies.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2022
Sarit and Itamar opted to leave the onion on the grill to blacken thoroughly — but only on the surface.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2021
I had callused my hands; I had scratched dirt to blacken the nails, which I cut straight across to make stubby fingers.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
When the ice blackens it's ability to reflect the sun diminishes and this accelerates the melting of the ice.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
Nearby, it blackens metal road signs, they said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
In a clearing of Colombia's Pacific jungle, the dense canopy encircles an area of desolation left by a clandestine refinery, where oil waste blackens everything underfoot, seeping into the soil and coating the vegetation.
From Reuters ● Dec. 26, 2022
A plume of smoke rises up above the streetlamps and blackens the sky.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019
His ink blackens; and in the end he can’t be kept from making a few discreet inquiries, among friends.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
A hunting lodge stands beside pine forest burned by a wildfire that started July 22 and blackened about 104,000 acres in and around Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
One popular order is the Diaspora Delight with blackened salmon and jollof rice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Salisbury was colorful: A mixed martial arts enthusiast, he once appeared at the agency’s headquarters with his face bruised and eye blackened from a recent bout.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
A grassfire can reduce a thriving habitat to blackened ground in a matter of hours - but recovery is a much slower story.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Only one end is blackened charcoal but that’s exactly what I want.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Algae lying dormant on the ice starts blooming in spring blackening large areas of the ice.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
Meanwhile, California’s largest wildfire so far this year was significantly surrounded on Monday after blackening a swath of hilly grasslands between San Francisco Bay and the Central Valley.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
In contrast - and blackening the Tory mood still further - is Labour's relatively newly discovered knack of winning where they need to win in a general election.
From BBC ● May 3, 2024
The midday gray blackening, then brightening, on account of a remote and veiled disk of sun and moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
She buys toilet paper that we can take down the hall to the lavatory and that, she says, is better than having the headlines from the Daily News blackening your arse.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
