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Example sentences for "black ball"

  • Let the waiter tell him that there was one black ball, and that his name must be put up again if he wishes it.

  • The ballot was soon over, for without hesitation every member threw in a black ball, and, when the scrutiny took place, the company were not a little amazed to find not even one white one among the number.

  • Special hoists are also used for special purposes, thus the display of the yellow flag, with a black ball on it, is an intimation that torpedo practice is going on.

  • This posed the Admiral, who, after some hesitation, proposed that the waiter should tell Fitzgerald that there was one black ball, and that his name must be put up again if he wished it.

  • This was soon done; for, without hesitation, each member threw in a black ball; and when the scrutiny came, the company were not a little amazed to find not even one white ball among the number.

  • After dinner Lantier had declined to have a drink at the "Black Ball," saying that when one was married to a pretty and worthy little woman, one ought not to go liquoring-up at all the wineshops.

  • The "Black Ball" on the outer Boulevard and the "Grand Turk" in the Rue des Poissonniers, were respectable places where she only went when she had some fine dress on.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black arrow; black basalt; black cattle; black cloth; black cloud; black coat; black color; black dress; black enamel; black face; black fellows; black folks; black frock; black gave; black letter; black magic; black market; black night; black pudding; black sand; black tents; black water; blackish colour; great affliction; more akin; where would