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coal-black

adjective as in jet

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Example Sentences

The blonde, blue-eyed mother thought that her dark-eyed girl with coal-black hair inherited those features from her grandmother.

The Hottentots allow their coal-black hair to fall in rude disorder over their foreheads and half-way down their necks.

If the Collier were a Radical, how coal-black the portraits would come out!

A great white collar flashed about his neck against the somber hue of his face and his coal-black eyes.

I could see from the flash of our lamps, as the rays fell on them, that the horses were coal-black and splendid animals.

I could wish that he were less often unsuccessful in the search, now that he has had "the coal-black wine" to drink.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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