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How to use inky in a sentence

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Their hair ranged from inky blacks, to pale straw, to warm brown, and honey blonde.
However, the sun was soon down below the horizon and the sky was covered with inky blackness, but her brothers were still nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly she hands me her torch and wonders off into the thick inky blackness of night.
Ike turned off the TV with a clap of his hand and the room was pitched instantly into inky blackness.
When he looked into the huge chasm all he could see was the darkest black, the inky color of the unexplored depths of an ancient cave.
A hundred feet out the ocean began to churn and boil with a dark inky color.
It is inky dark, with fireflies flashing in the trees and a gibbous moon hanging over Venus.
With a gasp from the motors and a jolt, the ship surged into the overwhelming blackness of space, inky dark except for the sprinkling of stars.
They pulled open the warped wooden door and stepped into the inky dark of the carousel.
It felt much like a cathedral, with smooth walls of dark stone that soared up into an inky blackness.
She gripped the iron edges and suspended herself in the inky blackness, as she heard footsteps going through the corridors.
There was a bed covered in rich dark green blankets, the window revealed an inky black night.
Dark, inky black clouds swathed over the sun and blotted out the sky like a curtain of stormy nightfall.
Sometimes too many keys rose at once and jammed together, so his fingers were all inky from pulling them apart.
He had been trying to coordinate a week of anti-war campaigning on campus and had just wiped inky fingers across one of the pristine T-shirts.
I'll put my inky fingers up and admit that such a truncation popped into my mind straight away.
But for all the lingering on inky skies or globular dollops of snow outside a window pane, the story never meanders.
In his head, Stewart plunged down hurtling depths and into inky water alive with worms and bones.
I much enjoyed this rich, crimson-purple wine with plenty of inky, earthy, charcuterie-suitable fruit.
When Pete flicks out the electric lights, we are plunged into inky darkness and ringing silence.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As for the plodding, inky sycophants who fawned upon Mr. Cray's informativeness, Michael regarded them with horror and contempt.
A scoopful of the inky liquid could be flung so as to spoil the polish on boots, or sent its splashes over apparel still higher.
The moonlight showed it all iron gray, except where some elephants stood upon it, and their shadows were inky black.
The pine-trees standing in inky blackness the rushing water, white with foam-above, the rifted thunder-clouds.
This genus can be readily recognized from the black spores and from the deliquescence of the gills and cap into an inky substance.
All that time neither Heemskirk nor even his inky shadow had stirred in the least.
When the pad gets inky turn another part of the rag out to give a clean wiping surface.
They then expand quickly, curl up in shreds, and deliquesce into a black inky fluid which stains the ground.
You see there are still worlds to conquer, in spite of all the inky battles that have been waged by philatelic writers.
Since the early '90s, Agee has been riffing on delftware, the Dutch pottery known for its inky blue brushstrokes.
The inky smell and the activity of the print shop fascinated him.
He had been at his books when I had found myself staring at him, and I now saw that he was inky.
The tree-tops rose against the luminous blue sky in inky silhouette, and all below that outline melted into one formless blackness.
The bushes were inky black, the ground a sombre grey, the sky colourless and cheerless.
North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars.
The inky edge of the cloud-disc frowned upon the ship under the patch of glittering sky.
She was by that time perseveringly dictating to Caddy, and Caddy was fast relapsing into the inky condition in which we had found her.
Outside a sky of inky blackness overhung the white expanse of snow.
All day, Betty Young had stared fascinatedly at the inky center.
A broad path of silver glinted on the inky waters of the river.
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