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Meanings of jet-black in English
Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal.
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Examples for "jet"
Examples for "jet"
1
However, the jet's auxiliary power unit was able to continue supplying power.
2
Find in the Glossary the meaning of: beechen; russet; train; jet; unapt.
3
Companies in participating countries compete for work building components of the jet.
4
However, there were no fatal passenger jet airliner accidents in the year.
5
Least Developed Countries' proposal -Levy on international jet and shipping fuels.
1
He points down a half-hidden slope that leads to a small jetty.
2
There is a private stone jetty directly in front of the house.
3
He found her twenty minutes later on a jetty at the marina.
4
To the south stood a long wooden jetty with boats moored alongside.
5
Let us walk on the jetty; I should like to see her.
1
She wiped them away with a sooty hand, pink in the palm.
2
Cold spots, writing on the wall, sooty handprints that appear and disappear.
3
Among them were gannets, sooty terns, and tropical birds in large numbers.
4
It was a livid sky, and sooty clouds were scudding across it.
5
Nudge was on a step stool, spraying the sooty ceiling with cleaner.
1
On one side, glaring dazzling light; on the other, cavernous pitchy darkness.
2
The staircase was a winding one and led down into pitchy darkness.
3
Above that round yellow ray, faces were unrecognizable in the pitchy blackness.
4
The night was quite dark, but not what is called pitchy dark.
5
A raw wind, driving snow, pitchy darkness, slush and everything objectionable underfoot.
1
At Zhong Xian more coal-black concrete factories pile up the river bank.
2
It is coal-black, and has a long neck with a brass pipe.
3
He had long brown locks, and his mustache and eyebrows were coal-black.
4
Her face was a mass of puckers burnt through by coal-black eyes.
5
The prettiest bird was a tiny manakin, coal-black, with a red-and-orange head.
Usage of jet-black in English
1
Through the glass I could see the tiny nest of jet-black hair.
2
The jet-black cat is thought by many to be the most desirable.
3
He wore a jet-black beard that grew close and dropped compactly down.
4
Presently a tall, dark fellow advanced, with jet-black moustache and red cheeks.
5
This one was a young boy with a jet-black mane of hair.
6
These being picked out, there remained a jet-black fine sand, resembling gunpowder.
7
She had large deep-violet eyes, jet-black hair, and a sweet, fresh complexion.
8
His thick jet-black hair had begun to turn gray at the temples.
9
A real old 'saddle-back' has a white saddle and almost jet-black points.
10
His carefully styled hair was jet-black, as was his neatly trimmed goatee.
11
Alex had the dark complexion and jet-black hair of an East Indian.
12
And the woman with the jet-black hair who works at the library!
13
Benjy turned and looked at the pretty girl with the jet-black hair.
14
She was rail thin with short jet-black hair and sharp, dark eyes.
15
Otherwise handsome, with jet-black hair, his mouth came with a built-in sneer.
16
Of course, the jet-black steed before him was far more than an animal.
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