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sloe
adjective as in black
adjective as in onyx
adjective as in pitch-black
Example Sentences
But hold your tongue for a while, and cast your eye along the valley, and watch the mist gathering on the furze and sloe trees.
Thus, at half-past ten, we find her officers drinking the toast of Deutschland unter Alles in sloe-gin.
Slender as a young willow, supple as an ash, eyes like the berries of the sloe-thorn.
The last red roseleaf had fluttered silently down; the last purple sloe had fallen from its sapless stem.
I looked, and sure enough he held it in his hand; and then I understood the flash of irony in the sloe-black eyes of him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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