How to Use sable in a Sentence

sable

1 of 2 noun

• Rangy by nature, Jake was a tri-color sable with a bushy dark brown tail tipped in white, matching the natural white ring of white fur around his neck.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2018
• And the guts of slicing sables, minks, lynxes, all the most precious furs, shredding them into pieces, re-assembling them into crazy shapes!
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 20 June 2017
• His showroom features chinchilla, sable, fox, and Blackglama mink.
  — Janie Har, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• Get to baking: Grating the chocolate bar into shards helps give structure to the cookies; once the cookies cool, the chocolate will hold them together, but the sables will still melt on your tongue.
  — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appetit, 13 Dec. 2017
• At the time, there were fewer than 44 sable antelope and perhaps a thousand buffalo on one million acres.
  — Paul Steyn, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
• Dessert was a decadent strawberry sable with lemon verbena cream.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 June 2019
• The thick chocolate olive-oil pot de creme was elegant with creme Chantilly and an orange-rosemary sable, or cookie, half of which was dipped in chocolate.
  — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2017
• Along with giraffes, sables and other animals, more than 1,400 rhinos call Hume’s Buffalo Dream Ranch home.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2016
• The third-generation deli man sifted through the fresh delivery of nova salmon, sable and whitefish, flown in weekly from his supplier in Brooklyn.
  — Paul Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
• The young girl entranced by fancy furs in Vienna went on to become the muse of furrier Dennis Basso, walking down the runway in a full-length sable coat and swanning around Manhattan in mink.
  — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
• Back then, Joseph Breitman, Mendel's great-great-grandfather, wrapped Russian aristocrats in sable.
  — Kristina Stewart Ward, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2010
• Dessert was strawberry sable with lemon verbena cream followed by a selection of assorted fresh fruits, then coffee and petit fours.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 3 June 2019
• But senior food editor Claire Saffitz, who developed the recipe, suggests only going for richer fish with a good fat content like arctic char, striped bass, black cod, sable, or salmon.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 19 Feb. 2018
• Anti-poaching efforts have helped populations of sable, hippo, elephant and other species to begin recovering.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2018

sable

2 of 2 adjective

• To fight the bitter cold, Brown taught the other women to row and shared her sable coat.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2022
• Why shouldn’t a gypsy’s wedding dress be trimmed with sable?
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 4 June 2021
• The blonde hair, the gusto, and the sable were all stops on Blige’s journey to truly feel beautiful.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022
• Mary’s head extrudes from a pyramid of gold, velvet and sable.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
• The texture is also magnificent as the crunch of the sable crust balances the creamy top.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
• Armed with measurements and a liking for the ‘sable’ brown felt, Landis briefed the hatters.
  — Simon Ingram, Town & Country, 30 June 2023
• Two small sable palms need to be relocated in my landscape.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2020
• This happened in the case of the giant sable antelope and roan antelope in southern Africa.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022
• Pembroke Welsh Corgis come in two coat varieties: red and sable.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
• Riders sit atop a sable leather seat that matches the brown leather handlebar grips, echoing the luxe carseats and steering wheels of yesteryear.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2019
• Animal activist Bo Derek was horrified to learn that the queen of England wears antique sable coats.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
• No matter the wait, no matter the tourists—fastidious New Yorkers wouldn’t get their smoked sable elsewhere.
  — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 6 May 2022
• Chiale confidently controls the intense contrast of stark white with sable black on his canvas.
  — Ryan McCarthy, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2021
• So after your visit, treat yourself to some whitefish salad and a few slices of sable at nearby Barney Greengrass.
  — ELLE Decor, 22 Nov. 2022
• Hidden inside are a strawberry insert, a vanilla-almond sable, and a lemon sponge.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023
• Fencing and moats were created with a private grant, and in 1970 three species of hoofed animals — a South African sable antelope, greater kudu and gemsbok — arrived.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022
• For dessert, there’s eggnog cremieux or gingersnap sable & pomegranate sorbet.
  — Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2022
• In real life, Queen Charlotte's dogs were typically white or cream, but these days orange and orange sable are the most popular colors.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton Andrews McMeel, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
• Its interior, in dove gray and sable brown, had the feel of a luxury yacht's cabin, right down to the slabs of natural-finish wood trim laced with delicate metal inlays.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 July 2022
• The Tag Heuer Carrera Chronograph adds a brightness and refinement to its sporty design, with two lustrous yellow-gold subdials set into its sable, sun ray-brushed face.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Strawberries, both cultivated and wild, are topped with an aloe sorbet served on a corn sable cookie and finished with black pepper and strawberry juice.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• The wastewater disperses nearly 33 days later as highly treated effluent into marsh, through the legs of wood storks and roseate spoonbills and then to an expanse of cordgrass and sable palms of the St. Johns River.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• While Grande stuck with the classic light pink and white tones, some celebrities are taking the trend even further and incorporating unexpected colours, like teal, neon orange, or a matte sable brown on the tips.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• The figurines Ezie photographed at Prada also have cartoonishly large lips and sable black complexions.
  — Nadra Nittle, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
• And most significantly, Holiday’s vocal powers were broad and deep enough to hold everything, from the bittersweet joy of a pink sunrise to the soft-as-sable disquiet of a too-late night.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 Feb. 2021
• But still others cling defiantly to their mink trench, their sable shrug, their fox poncho—arguing that fur is warm and gorgeous, and among the most sustainable materials on Earth.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2019
• The Holly family brought zebras, impalas, ostriches, cranes, lemurs, giraffes, aoudads, mouflons and sable antelopes, according to the Gainesville Sun.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
• Many natural options include Saikoho goat, gray squirrel, silver fox, and even Kolinsky sable.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021
• Even the animal park needed replenishing, as soldiers had eaten most of the country’s prized giant sable antelope.
  — USA Today, 22 Aug. 2019
• The Splash also comes with a passionfruit insert, a vanilla sable, and passionfruit-chocolate decorations.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023