What is "jet-black"

Usage examples of "jet-black".

Her jet-black hair was combed out until it hung loosely down below her shoulders.

Everywhere the mercenaries looked they could see sturdy jet-black bark pillars supporting the dovetailing leaf domes.

There were squadrons of jet-black drongos with long forked tails, starlings of iridescent malachite green, rollers and bee-eaters in jewelled colours of turquoise and sunlight yellow, carmine and purple, jinking and whirling in full flight, ecstatic with greed.

He put the key in his pocket, smiled, and left, climbing into a jet-black Ford F350 dually pickup.

The bright crimson cord holding jawbone to skull, as I found when the tough wrapping paper finally fell away, revealing the, skull, its jet-black letters uppermost, had not even slipped during all of its travels.

The older man was Navajo, but it was hard to tell from his brand-new Roughout boots with the cocky heels, the well-tailored leather vest he wore, and the light brown cowboy hat perched above a shock of jet-black hair.

Somewhere, Brooke decided, there had to be an overheated cloning machine given over to producing tight, almost jet-black curls, rosebud mouths and big, luminous blue eyes with lashes any grown woman would kill for.

The next patroller was squat, even shorter than Cerryl, but twice as broad, and his hair was jet-black, his eyes equally black.

The dog, jet-black, was clipped short all over and resembled a Saluki with tight curls.

Instead, Castillo had a drink and watched the BBC television news until an at- tractive British Airways passenger service representative came and collected him and an ornately costumed, tall, jet-black couple he thought were probably from Nigeria for no good reason except they were smiling and having a good time.

In the archaeological record the oldest traded material is obsidian, a very fine, jet-black and shiny volcanic glass, which was mined at a single source in southern Turkey but was found all over the Middle East, where its transparent, reflective, super-cutting properties made it magical and much sought after.

Tony was in his early fifties, five-ten, barrel-chested, big and wide but not fat, with apparently unretouched jet-black hair and the same dark eyes that were the first feature that had struck me about his nephew.

She was immediately greeted by a zealous aesthetician with jet-black hair and lots of makeup, whom Nadine guessed to be in her late forties.

I found that, as a rule, the inks upon the most ancient records had preserved their color, many undoubtedly being blacker than when used, but that the later records lost the jet-black appearance of the older.

Jet-black Punjabis, for example, are prominent in the professions of central California - medicine, law, agribusiness and academia - oblivious to the fact that their hue is often darker than that of African-Americans.