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Example sentences for: ebony

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His palette (and that of the costume designer, Colleen Atwood) is white on ash, gray on dusty brown, ebony on bone--the better to set off the lurid splashes of crimson.
There is--or was--a US newspaper called The Afro-American , and there is a popular magazine called Ebony . As Mr. Livingston points out, African-American is--or can be--ambiguous and is a poor choice solely on that ground.
One of them told Ebony magazine in 1967 that blacks in Central Point had "infiltrated the white race more than any other group of Negroes.
It is a distinct language--not a dialect, not nonstandard speech--called "ebonics" (a combination of "ebony," meaning "black," and "phonics").
(That last isn't all that unreasonable, given the unremittingly cheerful Ebony magazine-like achievement accounting of Africana .)