: deep black in color : black as jet
jet-black hair

Examples of jet-black in a Sentence

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Julia Fox morphed into a Gothic doll for Marc Jacobs’ fall 2025 ready-to-wear fashion presentation in New York City on Monday night, with jet-black extensions and shadowy eyes. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 1 July 2025 Because of prison restrictions on hair dye, his normally jet-black mane has now faded into an ashen white. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 1 July 2025 Its jet-black formula glides on with inky precision and dries down to a bulletproof finish that stays sharp for up to 24 hours (yes, really). Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 23 June 2025 Edel evokes the jet-black streets at night and the bunker-like postwar subterranean of Berlin in a way that feels oddly romantic and nostalgia-worthy — especially under the gleaming neon signage of the trendy discotheque Sound — without ever romanticizing a youth-culture-killing drug epidemic. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for jet-black

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of jet-black was in the 15th century

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“Jet-black.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jet-black. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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