How to Use black in a Sentence

black

1 of 3 adjective

• The black bands loop through the shoelace slots in all types of shoes.
  — Olivia Evans, womenshealthmag.com, 17 May 2023
• The sinkhole looked like a black wound in a green field.
  — Allison Keeley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
• Use a hand blender to quickly make a soup of the black beans.
  — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 5 Jan. 2023
• The heavy black fringe felt cool and silky against my bare legs.
  — Christine Lennon, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• The pig with white hair and black spots stumbles to her hooves.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2021
• The room, the world, is nothing but black except for the stairs.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021
• The singer paired a purple fuzzy coat with a black lace crop top and pants.
  — ELLE, 26 Feb. 2022
• On top of the tiny shorts, Kendall pulled up a cheeky black thong.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 4 May 2023
• Walker came away with a cut and a black, bruised and swollen eye.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2021
• The neutral white and black pattern will match any style of decor.
  — Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2023
• Her bangs are curled around her brows and pinned with a sweet black bow for a retro vibe.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 23 Jan. 2023
• His look was finished off with navy socks and black loafers.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2022
• Oh, and don’t forget the black garlic home fries on the side.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
• In other clips, black bears wander up and down the path.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2020
• Scores of others were left as black and yellow corpses on the ground.
  — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
• While chicken cooks, mash black beans with a fork in a small bowl.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2021
• The suspect wore all black clothing and his blond hair was slicked back.
  — cleveland, 29 Apr. 2021
• The Duchess looked chic in a tuxedo-style black dress for that event.
  — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 16 Jan. 2019
• Grande had her hair styled in a ponytail with a black ribbon.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 12 May 2022
• The man said his black open framed trailer was missing.
  — cleveland, 27 Aug. 2021
• More than one-third of the Seguin student body is black.
  — Mark Heim, AL.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• There are so many houses where the outside paint is black.
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2020
• Its white and light-brown feathers were caked with black crude.
  — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Or from one of the black and white sequences in Part 8?
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 10 July 2017
• In the first shot, both men were decked out in black tactical gear.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
• His face is as black as charcoal while his hair is as white as snow.
  — Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 19 July 2017
• Big brown eyes, a box cut of curly black hair and a sweet, charming smile.
  — Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2019
• This neutral shade will stand out amid a sea of all-black luggage.
  — Aemilia Madden, harpersbazaar.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• The bag is on sale in three colors: black, orange, and pink.
  — Andie Kanaras, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2024
• Don’t eat garlic with fuzzy gray, black, or blue spots on the clove.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Oct. 2023

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black

2 of 3 noun

• The wall was painted in black.
• She was dressed in black.
• The sky is clear and moonless, the stars sharp in the black.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2021
• The spacecraft had found a white dot on a field of black.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• Or maybe this is where this movie starts to fade to black.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2018
• That will lead to a draw, which is the best black can do here.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2022
• And all the woodwork in the house is painted a brown-black.
  — Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2020
• This was the year drillers were going to surge into the black.
  — Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
• That left the school about $1 million in the black for the year.
  — Freep.com, 12 Feb. 2021
• Cedrick is black and has brown eyes and black braided hair.
  — Dallas News, 10 July 2019
• The slippers come in black—and the navy that’s shown—and run small.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 28 Oct. 2022
• One legacy of apartheid is that many blacks live far from where the jobs are.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• By game time, the crowd at the sleek black trailed had only swelled to five or six.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 13 Sep. 2020
• Yes, the night is pitch-black, but the stars shine all the more brightly for it.
  — TheWeek, 8 Mar. 2020
• The boost for these applicants is as high as the one given to blacks.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019
• Start with a white base over the entire face, then outline the eyes in black.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 10 Oct. 2022
• His portraits have a rich tonal range, from the whitest white to grays to the blackest black.
  — Redeat Wondemu, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
• Not these ladies, who proved that all things alabaster may be the new black.
  — Carson Griffith, Town & Country, 1 May 2014
• Williams, who also is black, says the center will tell the truth about the war.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
• All watches come in black and have a strap for a more adjustable fit.
  — Hanna Horvath, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2020
• The Christmas star turned to ash like Mary dressed in black.
  — Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
• Walking the red carpet dressed in black is a feeble form of protest.
  — Robin Givhan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Now many in the design world say there is a new neutral in town: black.
  — Elizabeth Mayhew, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• Use colors of this chakra: white with a bit of gray and sometimes a hint of black.
  — Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 8 Mar. 2021
• Could there be a special case in which black is better?
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 9 July 2019
• Inside the trailer were two adorable cows: one brown and one black.
  — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• Most of the ones at the Phillips are in shades of white, beige or rose; two are dusty black.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• The pop star went back to her soul color: an inky shade of gothic black.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 28 Nov. 2022
• What if Gods and heroes were dressed in black and villains in white?
  — Aradhna Krishna, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
• Two people, a man, and a woman dressed all in black, got out of a car.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021

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black

3 of 3 verb

• He blacked his boots with polish.
• Labor union members have blacked the company.
• The scene then fades to black and a textbox appears at the bottom of the screen.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• The giant white ball of light at the top of the dome slowly faded to black.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• Lisco: What’s the point of cutting to black at that point?
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• One is struck on the head and dragged into the grave, still glowing with life until the earth blacks him out.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2019
• In other words, will black and brown doulas be displaced?
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 14 June 2018
• Vision steadily blurs or narrows, and for some, the world fades to black.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2011
• But the librarian would always find them and black them out.
  — courant.com, 18 July 2019
• Or did the aforementioned editor cut to black each time?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
• But as the show fades to black, the Byrdes are in surprisingly good shape.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 31 May 2022
• Choose from five color options, from ivory to chestnut to black.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2023
• The video fades to black and the title Harry’s House is revealed.
  — Izzy Colón, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2022
• The overhead light suddenly drops to black to a soundtrack of loud and startling applause.
  — Vulture, 26 Jan. 2023
• Its rhythm was abnormal — that’s why she’d blacked out.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
• Would black Justin Bieber reappear like a unicorn in the forest of our tangled lives?
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
• The show cuts to black with Kendall starring blankly at the river ahead, but Strong tried to take things further.
  — Variety, NBC News, 5 June 2023
• His vision started blacking in from all sides like it was being rubbed out with an eraser.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2018
• Black-and-White didn't respond to a request for comment.
  — Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
• When the packet arrived two days after Christmas, much of it was blacked out and useless.
  — Mike Hendricks, kansascity.com, 25 June 2017
• Three right lanes were blocked, with traffic blacked up to Deer Springs Road by the evening commute.
  — David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Swimming or diving goggles, with the inside lenses lined with sponge padding to black them out.
  — Juan Ortega, www.feloniousflorida.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Jane smiles, perhaps a little unsure, and the scene cuts to black before Jane answers.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 8 July 2022
• On multiple occasions, the screens have frozen up or blacked out entirely in our use.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 1 June 2017
• Today is the first day of the rest of your (storm-tossed, wind-swept, blacked-out, hot, humid) life.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 1 June 2018
• Before the film fades to black, viewers are taken back to the clearing in the woods, where the minari continues to grow in abundance on a stream of water.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
• While you may be drawn straight to black, don’t overlook the bombshell red or hot pink colors (there are a few more to choose from, too).
  — Jill Schildhouse, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2023
• For decades, the artist was partial to black in his paintings, but the works in the show make use of color — most memorably, a yolky shade of yellow.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• There was no game to show, no update on Hamlin’s condition to share, no cutting to black.
  — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Here’s some of the data: each double bunch of dots represents one of the research sites, with grey being the autistic brains and black the controls.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2014

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024