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Example sentences for "blacker"

Lexicographically close words:
blacked; blacken; blackened; blackening; blackens; blackest; blackfellow; blackfellows; blackfish; blackguard
  1. Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets.

  2. Their visage is blacker than a Corrected.

  3. Roger, too, was getting on in years, with a blacker prospect for the future than when he first stood behind a plough-tail.

  4. But here the damnable verdict blistered her that the more she sacrificed herself the blacker grew the souls of her churchmen.

  5. The blackness of her room seemed blacker for the sad, entering gray of morning light.

  6. They may be considered as a variety of that race of blacker colour than others, and of a conformation approaching more nearly to that of proper Negroes.

  7. More than one Malay informed Mr. Newbold that the Semangs were essentially the same as the Jokong; having the same hair, but a somewhat blacker skin.

  8. The blacker variety is found on the low islands.

  9. As for Beatrice, though in the dark she hid her tears, she felt that grief could plumb no blacker depths save utter loss.

  10. Again she watched, her whole soul aflame with hope and eagerness and tremulous joy, ready to burst into a blaze of happiness--and then came disillusion and despair, blacker than ever and more terrible.

  11. He pointed where, not ten yards away and below, a blacker shadow seemed to move along a hemlock branch.

  12. The chrysalis is dark reddish, rather blacker above; enclosed in a silken cocoon spun up among leaves, etc.

  13. Sometimes the general colour of the fore wings is of a blacker tint, and in such specimens the fine black cross lines are obscured.

  14. Now and then specimens of the female sex are dark in colour, with red bands, and Barrett mentions an example of this sex smoky black in colour, with still blacker markings (Plate 66).

  15. Outbreaks of temper, sharp and sometimes violent, began to manifest themselves on her part, and renewed disappointment and blacker remorse to darken the soul of Marston himself.

  16. Kellerman added, that he had discovered the blacker than black of Apollonius Tyanus: it was itself "the powder of projection for producing gold.

  17. She had seen so much of the blacker side of human nature that blackness no longer startled her as it should do.

  18. Lady Lufton took it, and read it, and her face grew blacker and blacker.

  19. The curls of smoke flitted softly amid the blurred yellow beams from the lamp, and our chat went on while the monstrous billows grew blacker and blacker and the spray shone like corpse-candles on the mystic and mighty hills.

  20. He was in an evil mood, made blacker by the prospect of spending a lonely night without the solace of liquor or woman.

  21. Presently the young Lady Marjorie came walking by, fairer of face than the flower of the hawthorn hedge on a moonlight night, but with hair tossed about her temples blacker than the sky on a night of stars.

  22. But so much blacker was the night that I saw it not even when I looked straight down upon it.

  23. Blacker and blacker grew the skies, and, just as I reached the top of this shelterless hill, the windows of heaven were opened, and the flood burst.

  24. The darkness of the impending cloud which precedes a burst of thunder was not blacker than the brow of Magua as he exclaimed: "The Delawares of the Lakes!

  25. But what is the edging of blacker smoke that hangs along its lower side, and which you may trace down into the thicket of hazel?

  26. They are blacker now than Harry Tewe's bull- bitch's!

  27. Presently clouds came flying over the sky, and blacker masses gathered on the horizon.

  28. The creek soon became narrow, the water deeper, and of a blacker color, and the banks more densely covered with canes.

  29. She succeeds in finally overruling Major Roper's scheme of coming out into the fog, which has contrived to get blacker still during this conversation; but has more trouble with the other old soldier.

  30. Then they fancied themselves vile above their fellows, and laid on more stripes, put more thorns upon their pillows, and fasted more hours, only to find that instead of fleeing, the devils became blacker and more numerous.

  31. The places thus vacated are taken up through rent or purchase by colored people; so that we have the striking phenomenon that black counties are getting blacker and white counties whiter.

  32. To that fateful question a reply can be made only on the testimony of Southern Whites now living down there, and not likely to paint the picture blacker than it is.

  33. The two began to spin, and they were spinning and spinning till near midnight, and behold ye, just before midnight old Peggy saw the flax she was drawing from the distaff grow blacker and blacker till it was as black as tar.

  34. Joan Blacker might have been moderately unhappy, moderately lonely all her life, if Innistenne had not come across her path.

  35. Joan Blacker looked at the river, seen dimly through the trees, at the wall of shrubs about the hidden nook.

  36. Joan Blacker did not fail in her good deed.

  37. And when Sir Percivale saw this he hied him thither, and found the ship covered with silk more blacker than any bear, and therein was a gentlewoman of great beauty, and she was clothed richly that none might be better.

  38. Then he overtook a man clothed in a religious clothing; and rode on a strong black horse blacker than a berry, and said: Sir knight, what seek you?

  39. And then he met with a yeoman riding upon an hackney, the which led in his hand a great steed blacker than any bear.

  40. Tom Croftly took off his cap, and wiped his grimy brow with a blacker hand, as he seated himself on the bottom of an empty keg.

  41. He never spoke a word, nor raised a hand, nor touched his horse with his spur; but he got blacker and blacker, and would go on whether the crowd moved asunder or not.

  42. Black Tom, as he heard this, sat still looking blacker than ever.

  43. Anthony's face grew blacker and blacker, and Ada, perhaps desirous of driving him to desperation, put out all her charms for Mr Warren.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blacker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.