Example Sentences

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Two tiny blue inklike dots in the white stripe of his Iraqi Campaign medal, invisible from more than a few feet away.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2010

While the typewriter ribbon supplied ink for letters on the top sheet, the combined chemicals made an inklike copy of the letter on the bottom sheet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then they advanced boldly into the opening; in a flash they vanished from the doctor's sight, and the inklike blackness of the opening again stared at him from that dazzling wall.

From The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Flint, Homer Eon

They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section C by Project Gutenberg

There were rumors about some unknown devil which lay hidden in the inklike substance, caught there like the proverbial fly in the amber.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 by Bates, Harry