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How to use blacking in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word blacking? Here are some examples.

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He became deeply unhappy when his father was imprisoned for debt and he worked for a time in a blacking warehouse.
To prevent blacking out, I tighten every muscle in my lower extremities, from my stomach to the little tendons in my toes.
A blacking warehouse was an establishment manufacturing, packaging and distributing blacking, for cleaning boots and shoes.
He fell forward, striking his face on the pavement and blacking out some time between 2pm and 3pm last Monday.
He said the one man had severely beaten the other, who was several inches shorter than him, blacking both his eyes and cutting his face.
The Pentagon has censored sections of the book, mainly blacking out individuals' names.
Boiling up shirts and sheets, ironing, polishing floors and furniture, blacking grates and shining silver used to be heavy work.
When Rees was giving birth, she was close to blacking out from pain and turned to reach for the mask supplying a painkilling gas.
Within two years, Charles was sent to work at a blacking factory in the Strand.
Until the 1939-45 war, Allcocks coated their reels with some sort of blacking that looked wonderfully used, even when it was new.
She fell to the ground with a soft thud, blacking out before even hitting the burning sands.
She told how when she said she was leaving, he put a pillow over her face and then punched her, blacking her eye.
The blacking warehouse was the last house on the left-hand side of the way, at old Hungerford-stairs.
It is unclear whether lawful blacking has as a prerequisite that the primary industrial action in a foreign country be in itself lawful.
Once again, the Cricklewood postmen took action, blacking the mail to Grunwick.
The capital has no running water and electricity is sporadic, blacking the city out at night.
Here, unlike in Manama, the authorities have tired of blacking out graffiti.
Given this limited definition, blacking of products is not a legal secondary action.
Such blacking can nonetheless be construed as a breach of duty that may warrant dismissal.
Guilt is the great disguiser, blacking the white of the sun.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The next forenoon, as Azuba was blacking the stove, Gertrude entered the kitchen.
Moreover, our boots are of rough hide, and not adapted for blacking.
He said Tom had purposely thrown the bottle of blacking at him.
The blacking out of the screen coincided with Donna's scream.
The brewer was obstinate, and insisted on dying in the blacking.
My location, to be sure, was an excellent one, being central, and I had capital blacking and brushes.
Unless I do better I'll have to try selling papers or blacking boots.
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