Sentence examples of "black" in English

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Translations: all143 noir113 noire22 other translations8
He looked black with anger. Il avait l'air vert de rage.
The fish is burnt black. Le poisson est carbonisé.
Why does he look so black? Pourquoi a-t-il l'air si en colère ?
The pot calls the kettle black. C'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité.
Two high school boys beat Tom black and blue. Deux lycéens ont cassé la figure à Tom.
The fire was too hot, and the cakes were burned quite black on the bottom. Le feu était trop chaud et les gâteaux furent complètement carbonisés sur le dessous.
I should have exiled myself to the summit of a mountain and spent my days growing bonsais and writing kanji in black ink. J'aurais mieux fait de m'exiler au sommet d'une montagne, et passer mes journées à faire pousser des bonzaïs et à écrire des kanjis à l'encre de Chine.
I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Je rentrais à la maison depuis un endroit au bout du monde, à environ trois heures d'un sombre matin d'hiver, et mon chemin conduisait à travers une partie de la ville où il n'y avait littéralement rien à voir que des lampes.
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