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Examples of blacken in a Sentence
Fire had blackened the field.
The sky blackened as the storm approached.
Their false accusations failed to blacken my reputation.
a presidency blackened by scandal
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On the hospital’s main 10-story building, windows, and doors were blown out and walls were blackened.
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Hanna Arhirova and Illia Novikov, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
On the hospital’s main 10-story building, windows and doors were blown out and walls were blackened, the AP reports.
—Greg Norman, Fox News, 8 July 2024
The state’s largest fire, the Basin Fire burning in Fresno County, has blackened 14,027 acres of the Sierra National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service said in an update Friday.
—Elise Fisher, Sacramento Bee, 6 July 2024
The sauce was, according to deep-dish traditions, evenly distributed across the surface, and a row of overlapping pepperoni slices formed a cool stripe down the middle of the pie, each circle blackened on the part of the sausage exposed to the high heat of the oven.
—Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
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Hanna Arhirova and Illia Novikov, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
On the hospital’s main 10-story building, windows and doors were blown out and walls were blackened, the AP reports.
—Greg Norman, Fox News, 8 July 2024
The state’s largest fire, the Basin Fire burning in Fresno County, has blackened 14,027 acres of the Sierra National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service said in an update Friday.
—Elise Fisher, Sacramento Bee, 6 July 2024
The sauce was, according to deep-dish traditions, evenly distributed across the surface, and a row of overlapping pepperoni slices formed a cool stripe down the middle of the pie, each circle blackened on the part of the sausage exposed to the high heat of the oven.
—Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
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“Blacken.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blacken. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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blacken
verb
black·en
ˈblak-ən 
blackened; blackening
ˈblak-(ə-)niŋ
1
: to make or become dark or black
2
: to hurt the reputation of
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