black disc
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A black disc is held up in front of the larger sunlike one looming over the set, like an eclipse overtaking a dying world.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
Oshie had slammed a bouncing puck over Budaj’s left shoulder, and the black disc hit the water bottle with such force that it burst.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2017
Since Fox essentially owned the glow puck technology, the black disc would never light up again.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014
We may have started making 45-minute albums because that was all you could fit on two sides of a black disc, but that has remained as an approximate standard because it works so well.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013
The inner edge, where the light was bounded by the black disc of the Earth, shaded off much more quickly from dark reddish purple into absolute blackness.
From Across the Zodiac by Percy Greg
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