black-on-black
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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On top of his trademark black-on-black blazer and jeans, paired with small, square black sunglasses, he appeared on the campaign trail draped in the flag of Nepal.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
At LACMA, Marshall’s devastating little black-on-black “Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self” is at the entrance to “Black American Portraits.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 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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