Sentence examples for ebony from inspiring English sources
The word "ebony" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe things that are very dark in color, such as a black wood. For example, "The ebony hutch in the living room adds a touch of elegance."
noun
A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
The bridge is also made from maple, and the fingerboard and the pegs for the strings usually from ebony.
Apart from the oil and rônier palms, trees include coconut palms, kapok, mahogany, and ebony.
Some members of the genus are valuable for their timber, particularly several species of ebony.
Commentators especially picked up on the idea that a coupling of this kind – ebony and ivory, living in perfect harmony, as someone else once sang – is still improbable in post-apartheid South Africa, even if Withers has said: "I'd be cautious to ever think of ourselves as a progressive band representing any sort of social change".
Tutankhamun 139 ebony, ivory, silver and gold walking sticks.
They were hunting for ebony and rosewood which the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) alleges was imported from India in violation of the Lacey Act, a 1900 law originally designed to protect fauna from poachers.
FWS claims the ebony sent from India was mislabelled, and that Indian law forbids the export of unfinished ebony and rosewood.
The Fish and Wildlife Bureau in November 2009 seized a shipment of Madagascar ebony it says Gibson knew was illegal.
As with tuna, so with ebony, ivory and rhino horn all being regulated more tightly, and all still desirable.The world is their oysterOrganised crime is globalising and diversifying.
Jeremy Seal, the author of a book on the Nicholas tradition, points out that in Bari, where he is loved more than anywhere, the holy man was often portrayed with ebony-black features, perhaps reflecting the fact that his bones were brought to the port from the eastern end of the Mediterranean.
It is classic Coen, from its ebony-black humour, to its perfectly turned details.
