black-on-black
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The day of the assignment I decided to wear a hot pink shirt I had picked up at a thrift store instead of my black-on-black attire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Two black-on-black pieces, meanwhile, bring concept and practice to equal heights — they’re equally absorbing to look at or think about.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
The full title of Birds of Prey, and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is a trigger warning for sad sacks, the kind who associate comic-book movies with thin-lipped grimaces and rain-slicked black-on-black tableaux.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2020
It’s got a dark blue body with a latticed front plate, flouting the VR industry’s love of black-on-black minimalism.
From The Verge ● Oct. 10, 2019
But I find I’m drawn in by the oily matte-and-glossy textures, by the pattern made by the rows of black-on-black typeface, and by the work’s weird passive-aggressive intensity.
From Washington Post
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