slate black

How to use slate black in a sentence

• The slit of blood grew larger and larger in the slate-black clouds.

  Flash-lights from the Seven Seas | William L. Stidger

• The rocking floor of the sea, blue and gray and slate black by turn, spread to the east.

  The "Genius" | Theodore Dreiser

• They bathed it in reddish light, and it loomed halfway out of the slate-black sea like something left alone in a ruined world.

  Hunters Out of Space | Joseph Everidge Kelleam

• Wings and tail slate-black edged chiefly with bluish plumbeous gray, the coverts and tertiaries with olive-green.

  Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers Part One and Part Two | Arthur Bent