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How to use sable in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun, adjective

Sable means a small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur. Example: “The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.”

Examples of sable by meaning

nounA pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.

  • Lovers dallied upon divans spread with sables.1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no....

nounBlack garments, especially worn in mourning.

  • Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil!1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

adjectiveSable-coloured, black.

  • It was crimson at the top and sable at the bottom, with thin triangles of colors stabbing into each other.2002, Christopher Paolini, chapter 3, in Eragon

adjectiveDark, somber.

  • A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/2/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days

More sentences with sable

  • The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.From the entry point
  • The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.From the entry arm
  • The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.From the entry quarterly
  • A lion rampant sable, langued and dented gules.From the entry dented
  • On his shield was a lion rampant sable, pizzled azure.From the entry pizzled
  • Tourists will come to the Mavuradonha to see elephants and sables, not mombies."2008, Dick Pitman, A Wild Life: Adventures of an Accidental Conservationist, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry mombie
  • The mantle was of ciclatoun lined with ermine and edged with sable.1932, Max von Boehn, Modes and Manners, volume I (From the Decline of the Ancient World to the Renaissance), New York, N.Y.: Benjamin…. From the entry ciclatoun
  • Crest - On a wreath of the colours, a demi-roebuck gules, attired and unguled sable.1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms: A Complete Encyclopædia of All Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate…. From the entry unguled
  • Argent, a shakefork sable between three fleurs-de-lis azure, one in chief and two in flank.1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 403. From the entry shakefork
  • Aston of Cheshire bore "Party sable and silver cheveronwise" or "Silver a chief enty sable."1910, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, page 320. From the entry enty
  • Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 15. From the entry embrace
  • Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil !1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC. From the entry radiant
  • Arms — Per pale argent and azure, on the first three pallets sable, all within a bordure of the last.2020, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 4618. From the entry cinqueda
  • Runolfr Audsson bears: Per chevron sable and gules, papellony argent, in chief a wolf courant to sinister argent.2014 May 23, Papellony, in Mistholme. From the entry papellony
  • Argent a fess counterembattled between three escallops sable, impaling Gules within a border engrailed or a lion passant argent, late 14th-c.1996, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, page 29. From the entry counterembattled
  • Disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12. From the entry soleil
  • Or, a dance gules, in chief 3 lions' faces sable.1922, Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, page 189. From the entry dance
  • Who comes through Michan’s land, bedight in sable armour?1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry bedight
  • Crest : A Garb Or, banded sable.1916, Mrs. Dorothy Lord (Maltby) Verrill, Maltby-Maltbie Family History, page 14. From the entry banded
  • Argent, three roebucks passant regardant gules, attired and unguled sable.1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms: A Complete Encyclopædia of All Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate…. From the entry unguled
  • Like Arcade, Burrow shows some classic French influences, in pastries like crisp sables; custardy, caramel-edged mini far Bretons; and buttery wedges of gateau Basque.2016 June 27, “How Chef Ayako Kurokawa Makes Burrow's Sensational Cheesecake”, in Eater, New York, N.Y.: Vox Media, archived from the…. From the entry far breton
  • Party of six argent and sable, on a fesse gules, between three lions of England, two broches (or embroidery needles) saltirewise between as many trundles or.2023 May 1, W. Sedgwick Saunders, A Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, Topographical Drawings and Prints, Coins, Gems, Autographs…. From the entry trundle
  • The Royal arms as above, differenced with a label of three points argent, over all, barry of ten or and sable a bend treflée vert (Saxony).1921, Edward Alfred Webb, The Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and of the Church and Parish of St. Bartholomew's the Great: West…. From the entry treflée

Meaning of sable

  1. noun A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
  2. noun Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
  3. noun A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.

Full definition of sable

Questions about sable in a sentence

How do you use sable in a sentence?
Sable is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.”
What is a short sentence with sable?
“Crest : A Garb Or, banded sable.”
What does sable mean?
Sable means a small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.

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