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• After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.From the entry carpet
• The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.From the entry blacken
• In front of him were great piles of blackened eugarie shells, relics of past aboriginal feasts.2009, Doris Gray-Woods, “The Coastal Survey of 1840”, in With Compass, Chain & Courage, Salisbury, Qld.: Boolarong Press, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry eugarie
• Hard skin on feet, blackened toes, tattered shorts, skin and bones.2008, Sanchita Islam, “The Pink House”, in Sarah Broughton, editor, Gungi Blues, Brentwood, Essex: Chipmunkapublishing, page 47. From the entry sleep rough
• Everywhere images of women with preposterous lips, blackened eyes and pushed up breasts.1999, Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory and Aesthetics, volumes 11-12, page 78. From the entry bimbofication
• Some of the children also are blackened, and none are overclad.1997, John Muir, Nature Writings. From the entry overclad
• The huaraches he wore looked like dried and blackened fish lashed to the floors of his feet.1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter VIII, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC. From the entry huarache
• "Helen," he called, "is this Mitzi?" and held out the burnt blackened doll.1922, Claude Carlos Washburn, The Lonely Warrior, Harcourt, Brace and company, page 245. From the entry Mitzi
• Barry's barns and the wine presses and the oak fermentation vessels were blackened and sprung, the wine-sugars toffeeing the floor.2015, Tony Weston, Making a Name, page 93. From the entry toffee
• Across from it is “Danaë,” in which a giant blackened depetaled sunflower emerges from a pile of lead books.2007 October 21, Amy Serafin, “The Louvre Now Accepts the Living”, in New York Times. From the entry depetal
• Only the four walls of his home still stood, blackened and smoking with the sluggish, stinking smoke that befouled the sea-wind.1983, Mary Stewart, chapter 5, in The Wicked Day, New York: William Morrow, page 53. From the entry befoul
• Her cheeks were a hideous blotchwork of flush and pallor, and there were great blackened hollows under her grit-sealed eyes.1983, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale. From the entry blotchwork
• Celia lay staring up at the beams blackened from peatsmoke.1973, Anya Seton, Green Darkness. From the entry peatsmoke
• The Siamese boy brought in plates containing wormy shreds of over-fried egg, seasoned with blackened bits of onion.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 417. From the entry wormy
• What he does see is a tarred road, a couple of blackened or dust-covered hedges, and a stream of other motorists.1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 13. From the entry motorist
• Electricity had paid no attention, and a colony of eye-flies had come instead and blackened the coils with their bodies.1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 93. From the entry eye fly
• For the smiles across their oiled, blackened faces, a foresong to the future; the loincloth across their groins, only resplendent of an uneducated, poverty-stricken youth.2003, Neelima Wig, Daybreak. From the entry foresong
• In Figure 7, these 8 points have been blackened, but not joined, because the 16-cell has longer edges; diameters of octahedral facets of the 24-cell.1995, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, “Paper Three: Two Aspects Of The Regular 24-Cell In Four Dimensions”, in F. Arthur Sherk, editor…. From the entry 16-cell
• The wind whopped and spat into the chimney; and now and then a puff of wood-smoke blew out and mounted up along the blackened fireboard.1918, Melville Davisson Post, “chapter 2”, in Uncle Abner. From the entry fireboard
• To rile their professors, South Carolina students staged 'blackrides,' when they blackened their faces, stole the horses of faculty, and galloped about campus while holding flaming torches.2019, Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson's Education, page 97. From the entry blackride
• The face of the man was withered and blackened as by the torrefaction of a thousand flames; his beard was grey as ashes; and his eyes were expiring embers.2013, Clark Ashton Smith, Told in the Desert. From the entry torrefaction
• They nooned at a spring and squatted about the cold and blackened sticks of some former fire and ate cold beans and tortillas out of a newspaper.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry noon
• While he prayed he knelt on his red handkerchief and read above his breath from a thumb blackened prayerbook wherein catchwords were printed at the foot of every page.1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC. From the entry catchword
• Grease blackened his hairy legs; grease had turned his white canvas shoes black; grease blackened his hands even beyond the wrist; grease made his short working trousers black and stiff.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 2, p. 54. From the entry greasy

Meaning of blackened

1. adjective Darkened to the point of appearing black; as.
2. adjective Synonym of charred.
3. adjective Synonym of blued.

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How do you use blackened in a sentence?

Blackened is used as an adjective. For example: “After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.”

What is a short sentence with blackened?

“The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.”

What does blackened mean?

Blackened means darkened to the point of appearing black; as.