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Example sentences for "black colour"

  • In the Libellulina the base of the tongue terminates towards the pharynx in a fleshy cushion, armed at each angle next to that part with a short hard horn or tooth of a black colour.

  • Here the coating is of a rich brown instead of a black colour, and seems to be composed of ferruginous matter alone.

  • The sand is entirely, or in greater part, siliceous; but some points are of a black colour, and from their glossy surface possess a metallic lustre.

  • The common hog has also run wild on one islet; all are of a black colour: the boars are very fierce, and have great tusks.

  • Jet is a mineral of a black colour, and resembles the cannel coal.

  • Asphaltum, or solid bitumen, is much harder than pitch, brittle, and of a brownish-black colour.

  • At the banks of the greater Tebiguarį»¹, I sometimes saw marble of a black colour, spotted with green, but of very small dimensions.

  • It bears fruit of a black colour, the rind of which, when unripe, is of a pale blue.

  • It is about eighteen inches in length, of a black colour, with a gloss of green.

  • It is of a brownish-black colour, with a black muzzle and eyes of a dark hue, the space between them being of a brown tint.

  • The common hog has also run wild on one islet; all are of a black colour: the boars are very fierce, and have great trunks.

  • On evaporating off the ether, the resin remains of a brownish-black colour, which dissolves readily in the volatile oils and in the oil of petroleum.

  • This mineral has a bluish or greenish-black colour, emits sulphurous fumes when heated, and acquires thereby an aluminous taste.

  • The oxide thus obtained has a straw yellow colour, and fuses at a high heat into an opaque glass of a dark-brown or black colour; but which becomes less opaque and yellow after it has cooled.

  • DD] It is a singular circumstance in the structures of these ants, that all the wood which they carve is tinged of a black colour, as if it were smoked; and M.

  • They are generally of a black colour, sometimes with red legs.

  • They are generally of a black colour, with more or less extended yellow markings.

  • By degrees, as you triturate, the Mercury will disappear, and the matter will acquire a black colour.

  • This metallic substance, being triturated for some time in a mortar with these matters, becomes at last invisible, and communicates to them a black colour.

  • It melts into one mass with the Lead; and the glass produced by these two metals, deprived of their phlogiston, inclines to a brown or a black colour; by which appearance chiefly we know that our Silver was alloyed with Copper.

  • Keep stirring the mixture with the shank of a tobacco-pipe all the while the Mercury is falling: you will see the matter grow thick and acquire a black colour.

  • Of the Aves, we saw several of that species of Falco taken at the Sechang Islands, the Columba alba in great numbers, and a singular species of Columba, of a black colour and a white tail.

  • This test, when mingled with wine containing lead or copper, turns the wine of a dark-brown or black colour.

  • This agent will render the oil of a dark brown or black colour, if any metal, deleterious to health, be present.

  • Green tea, coloured with carbonate of copper, when thrown into water impregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen gas, immediately acquires a black colour.

  • In it I found many fragments of those Trojan vessels, which are of a brilliant red or black colour, both outside and inside, but nothing else of any interest.

  • It is often so finely scratched that the aid of a magnifying glass is required to convince one that it actually exists; we found several such pieces of marble where the owl's head was painted in a black colour.

  • All the terra-cottas are of a brilliant red, yellow, green, or black colour; only the very large urns are colourless.

  • The uterus was become of almost a black colour, swelled, softened, and exhaling an insupportable odour.

  • He is of a black colour or black prevails, mixed with gray or brown.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "black colour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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