(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(2) The lights of smart hotels and restaurants bob in inky water, and the iconic bronze-cast Liver birds look down from above on the city’s Liver building.
(3) Photograph: Supplied Compared with his famously mute mother, the prince has gained a reputation for bombarding ministers with his “black spider memos” – letters written, it is said, in his black inky scrawl on red-crested HRH notepaper.
(4) Feeding off the spectacular scale of American land art as a student in the 1970s, he first shot to prominence in the late 80s when he filled Matt's Gallery in east London with sump oil, drawing visitors into an inky black abyss.
(5) Peter Hain, the former cabinet minister who lobbied with Charles for NHS trials of complementary medicine, summed up his influence in this way: “He could get a hearing where all the noble, diligent lobbying of the various different associations in the complementary medicine field found it hard.” Letters, written in black inky scrawl, are a key part of his lobbying arsenal .
(6) After his Burberry show, Christopher Bailey enthused about flowers being "fragile and vulnerable", Christopher Kane talked about their "sexual undertones", while at House of Holland , dresses were decorated with the inky drawings of roses used in tattoo parlours.
(7) Best of all there are chicken enchiladas, in the inky blackness that is that mole, a dense, deep thick sauce with dark caramel tones and chilli heat but most of all a robust ripe savouriness.
(8) • 145-147 West Port, 0131-229 4431, edinburghbooks.net , westportbookfestival.org , 13-16 Oct Inky Fingers @ Forest Cafe Photograph: Chris Scott In 2010 Inky Fingers began as an open mic night at the Forest Cafe, after Harry Giles and Alice Tarbuck spotted a yawning gap in the Edinburgh scene.
(9) They are pictures of supersaturated shades – inky reds, livid oranges, fizzing greens – so unlike the tonal politeness of his earlier pale work.
(10) Bake for 15–20 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown and the blackberries burst and ooze their inky black juice.
(11) Birds and insects fall quiet, streams turn inky and trees become stunted, their leaves blackened and scrunched up, like fists.
(12) Adams's accuser was not some inky-fingered hack, but a respected musicologist, Richard Taruskin of the University of California.
(13) David Lynch album cover Crazy Clown Time album cover With its fateful inky finger casting an ominous aura, the artwork for David Lynch's first solo album Crazy Clown Time taps the shadowy horror of silent cinema's expressionist masterpieces – such as The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920) – and his own debut, Eraserhead.
(14) To be clear, in the inky print world of the 1990s, the pleasure of putting out an exclusive at 10 or so in the evening, and knowing newsdesks would at that instant be bollocking my peers and rivals for missing the story, well there was nothing quite like it.
(15) The inky stamps are gone now and my son is not limited to four.
(16) In moments of danger, their ink sacs release clouds of blackness to give the impression that they're much bigger than they really are and, with a wave of their big inky capes, they make a quick getaway.
(17) A gnawingly stunning Mary Magdalene gazing up at you with inky eyes as she metaphorically washes your feet with her hair?
(18) Most facilities are in and around the adobe village of Pisco Elqui where inky skies abound.
(19) He lost his footing in an inky stairwell and nearly fell down the concrete steps.
(20) The result is a version of Paltrow that we have seen nowhere near enough of: light, frothy, easy-going; eating raw clams from the shell, burying her nose in big glasses of inky red wines, enthusing over huge, steaming vats of paella.
Spattered
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Spatter
Example Sentences:
(1) Tarantino’s blood-spattered, race-themed western was in fact his biggest hit, taking $425m worldwide.
(2) Inside, the white pillars in the big empty atrium were spattered with blood, and splintered wood and broken chairs hinted at the violence of the three-hour battle.
(3) In the early spring, Atlantic rollers pound the beach while gulls strut in rain-spattered tidal pools.
(4) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
(5) An experiment at the same Moscow facility in 1999 descended into chaos when a Russian captain forced a kiss on a female Canadian crew member, and two other Russians got drunk and ended up in a fist fight that left blood spattered over the capsule walls.
(6) In Muslim areas, the flag appeared in leaflets in a blood-spattered montage of Tony Blair and George Bush and troops in Iraq, while underneath it she played to religious homophobia by claiming that Labour was allowing children to be propositioned for homosexual relationships.
(7) However, the team still found blood from the attack spattered on some walls and ceilings and also brought back bullet casings that matched weapons Bales was reported to have carried, and fabric that matched a blanket prosecutors say he wore as a cape.
(8) The receipts are being published not merely too late, but also after being liberally spattered with a black marker pen in a way that covers up all the worst crimes.
(9) A central square was left spattered with blood after baton-wielding police dispersed crowds.
(10) As a shell blasted through the wall, showering occupants with shrapnel and spattering blood on walls and floors, Amna Zantit, 31, scrambled to gather up her three terrified infants in a panicked bid for the relative safety of the schoolyard.
(11) "Given that it's usually around 45-50 minutes long, I always presumed you waxed lyrical for many hours talking about everything from Boney M to punching wildlife, with a spattering of football in between, and producer Ben chopped it all down to 45 mintues of football chat.
(12) Sign up for our film masterclasses Xan Brooks tentatively enters through cinema's blood-spattered back door as he looks for some truly terrifying thrils in cinema's tawdriest genre Photograph: guardian.co.uk Join us to explore the wonder of cinematography at our second Guardian film masterclass .
(13) After the press conference, St Louis County police department shared pictures of the officer’s blood-spattered face mask.
(14) Its crew found Baby P already stiff and blue in his blood-spattered cot.
(15) (I find it useful to cover the pot with an inexpensive spatter screen to catch any spattering chilli.)
(16) • A defence witness called to dispute the state’s version of how Steenkamp was killed was labelled “irresponsible” by Nel, who pointed out that Roger Dixon was not trained in ballistics, light, sound or blood spatter evidence .
(17) As to Scarfe's cartoon specifically, it seems to me almost identical to every other blood-spattered pictorial lament for man's inhumanity to man he's knocked out over the past 40 years.
(18) It was early March and snow was still spattered on the leaf mould between the firs and larches.
(19) The prosecutor also said blood spatter evidence indicated that the athlete's statement about the location of a duvet in the bedroom was false.
(20) Pro-government media quickly published graphic pictures of the blood-spattered bodies of the five dead Egyptians – Tarek Saad Abdel Fattah, 52; his son Saad Tarek Saad, 26; his son-in-law Salah Ali Sayed, 40; Mostafa Bakr, 60; and Farouk.