sable
Example Sentences
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“How beautiful she is in her shining raiment,” he rhapsodizes, “her birch-bark body, her sable bodice, her white cravat, her goffered ruff.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
In contrast, some parts of the tarantula feel almost like sable fur.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025
Traditional brushes are made with animal hair from squirrels, goats or sable, a species of weasel.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
The four largest herbivores wearing GPS collars -- nyala, kudu, sable and elephant -- had no fatalities.
From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2023
In the moonlight, the forbidding buildings of Blackcliff are almost beautiful, the sable granite softened to blue.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
