inkstone
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“Finding herself entangled in a love triangle,” says the wall text, “she nervously faces her inkstone and brush as she considers how to reply.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2019
She points with evident pride to her inkstone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma.
From Time Magazine Archive
As his father prepares to write an article — he has an inkstone out, and a wolfs hair maobi — his mother prepares to speak up.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
"Add more water to the inkstone," another voice said.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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