Example sentences for: black

How can you use “black” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 8 million for instigating the burning of a black church in 1995.

  • What most thinking people in black studies find dangerous about the middlebrow apotheosis of the field is that it usually leads to the enshrinement of what Jacques Barzun calls thought-clichés, half-truths or non-truths that are accepted as the truth because someone said so in some reference book like Africana . Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.

  • Eventually, these kindly white Southern death row guards sneak their pet J.C. on all kinds of useful errands, including one to the home of a terminally-ill, bedridden white woman, over whom the black giant hovers in a miraculous inversion of a Southern rape fantasy.

  • No black writer roughly of Ellison's generation--not Richard Wright, not Langston Hughes, not Zora Neale Hurston--was able to parlay one novel into a position of being a respected critic and theorist of American literature.

  • Assigned by a fair-minded black principal with two doctorates!


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