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How to use blacken in a sentence

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Fires were initially started as backfires to blacken areas adjacent to firelines.
It became the most effective typological tool to blacken the Irish character and, through association, declare it unfit for self-government.
Children also used to blacken their faces, as Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators might have done.
Or could it have been, as he implied, jealous rivals who wanted to blacken his name and damage his business?
They burn cork and blacken their faces, painting on big red lips, donning white gloves.
Several of my toes commenced to blacken and fester near the tips and the nails worked loose.
In battle men may blacken their skin similar to the cassowary's colouration.
The chairman of a credit union that fired its two managers for misconduct has been accused of orchestrating a campaign to blacken their names.
Use thicker-fleshed chiles, such as poblanos, and allow their skin to blacken and blister without burning through the flesh.
And then, once they'd turned their backs for a minute to do something else, we could see my pizza catch fire and eventually blacken to a cinder.
Place in a hot oven for 20 minutes or until they just begin to shrivel and blacken on the outside but are still juicy inside.
Halve and deseed the peppers and place, with rounded sides uppermost, under a preheated grill until the skins blacken.
His blue eyes blacken and I watch aghast, as he buries his face in his hands with a barely stifled groan.
First they accused the film writer of plagiarism to blacken her name and destroy her credibility, then attacked the film script.
He then proceeded to blacken his face entirely while trying to remember the words to the song.
The night before Bonfire Night was once known as Mischief Night, when children would blacken their faces and play pranks.
The herb was added as it can blacken hair and it will also add to the astringent quality of the formula.
Since then he has done everything possible to politically destroy his opponent and blacken his name through a series of trumped up charges.
There seems to be a wild idea revolving around in the heart of government that we were part a devilish clever plot to blacken them.
To vote NO to a resolution or to abstain, blacken out the numbered box corresponding to that resolution.
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Examples from Classical Literature
You shall tarnish the memory of our father and blacken the honor of our mother.
It is best not to use an iron point for this, as iron is apt to blacken the leather.
Why cannot they blacken their faces and lie in a corner with a crust of bread?
While all is hushed, watch the castled crag and the gnarled pine on the hilltop blacken against the golden afterglow.
In the midst of the marsh were rows of the fruit-stems of the sensitive fern, which is the first to blacken before the frost.
It will burn and blacken outside, which is of no consequence.
For a little while I watched that distant cloud spread and blacken, then I judged it was time for me to appear.
All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man who, but three months before, had been almost an angel of light.
Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire.
And does he blacken his face as well as the other Whiteboys?
But already his swollen tongue was beginning to blacken in his mouth.
I will not blacken any man's reputation to further my own interests.
A woman I was introduced to here in London once tried to blacken it.
I'll no let any one blacken the memory o' Thomas Macalister.
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