Sentence examples for basically black from inspiring English sources

"That's basically black people on there unless there's a Rams game," the cabbie says.

For Realists, all states are basically black boxes that behave the same way.

I have other friends who consider wearing a T-shirt with one's swimming shorts as basically black tie.

Fieger and Co became a guilty pleasure before the expression came into common parlance, with Kurt Cobain performing snatches of "My Sharona" in the early '90s and claiming that Nirvana were "basically Black Sabbath molesting The Knack".

The species' plumage is basically black and highly glossed, although the tone of this gloss varies throughout the species' range, from bronzy olive-green in the north to dark blue in the south; also, the bird's overall size decreases with latitude.

Deep Packet Inspection equipment is basically black boxes which sit on the network and watch the traffic go by.

In the same space, Olivier Saillard, who curates fashion exhibitions at the wonderful Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, has put together a show of copyright registration photographs, basically black-and-white images of designs made by the greats of French fashion, the likes of Madame Vionnet, Paul Poiret and Elsa Schiaparelli.

The decor is straight out of Spencer's Gifts––basically black-light posters of Jimi Hendrix and tigers.

The "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" actress showed up with her husband, actor and filmmaker Ben Falcone, to the notoriously fancy, basically black-tie-only Vanity Fair party on Sunday night in matching Adidas tracksuits.

After the show I start walking home and I'm basically blacked out.

The rest of the day was basically the blackest of black comedy.