Sentence example with the word 'blacken'

blacken

abuse, besmirch, blot out, cloud over, disapprove, fulminate against, muckrake, oversmoke, singe, somber, vilify

Definition v. make or become black

Last update: September 3, 2015


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Abney and Baker have shown that the pure dry chloride does not blacken when exposed in a vacuous tube to light, and that the blackening is due to absorption of oxygen accompanied by a loss of chlorine.   [Please select]

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The body itself, with ink-blackened fingertips, lay to one side, out of the way.   [Please select]

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All show the same relaxed muscles, the same blackened flesh, signs of putrefaction.   [Please select]

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Low bulging walls, blackened with the stains of lichens and mosses, support the terraces.   [Please select]

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The storm was the one that had blackened the sky some hours before.   [Please select]

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For a woman, this dream signifies a blackened reputation.   [Please select]

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His cowhide shoes had been well blackened; the blue yarn of his socks showed above them.   [Please select]

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I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.   [Please select]

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The dawn may be blackened forever by it.   [Please select]

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The excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it.   [Please select]

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Blackened court cards laid along her thigh by sevens.   [Please select]

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