Inky is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like achromatic. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Inky in a sentence
Inky meaning
- Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
- Spattered or stained with ink.
- Dark-skinned; black.
Synonyms of Inky
Using Inky
- The main meaning on this page is: Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark. | Spattered or stained with ink. | Dark-skinned; black.
- Useful related words include: ink-black, inky-black, achromatic.
- In the example corpus, inky often appears in combinations such as: the inky, inky black, inky blacks.
Context around Inky
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inky
- In this selection, "inky" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, think, pure, skinned, black, night and blackness stand out and add context to how "inky" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a simulated inky night sky and battered posters inky clippings and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inky" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inky
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
When a pixel is turned off, you get pure, inky black. (11 words)
We think Inky would enjoy a canine buddy to play with in his forever home. (15 words)
To eye it was a world of muted gray and inky blue, accented by the bright moon. (17 words)
He appealed to all stakeholders especially those in the inky fraternity to travel the extra mile to market the region so as to woo investors to compliment efforts by government to improve socio-economic wellbeing of the people. (38 words)
The itch on the brain, the obsessive looped thinking, the fixation on aspects of my health, the fear that this time it won't go away and I'll be stuck in its inky black ocean forever. (37 words)
After a series of strange happenings—blackouts, agitated horses, pained noises emanating from the canyons—OJ observes what appears to be a flying saucer gliding through the inky night sky. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
After a series of strange happenings—blackouts, agitated horses, pained noises emanating from the canyons—OJ observes what appears to be a flying saucer gliding through the inky night sky.
The Milky Way stretches across the heavens like a shimmering band of celestial light, and countless stars twinkle in the inky blackness.
This simplicity makes her occasional use of a poetic image (“The inky water moves in pleats”, “ideas like dodgems, colliding in her head”) all the more sublime.
Watching Dune 2, Denis Villeneuve’s challenging palette of subtle ochres, luminous blues, blinding sunlight and inky blacks looked absolutely gorgeous.
We think Inky would enjoy a canine buddy to play with in his forever home.
When a pixel is turned off, you get pure, inky black.
Finally, as the stars slid into the inky sky, I made my way back along the elevated boardwalk.
In the video, the players are wearing colour-coded hard hats corresponding with Inky, Blinky and the other Pac-Man cast of characters.
This thick-skinned, inky grape has it all—fruit, tannin, acid—and spreads broadly over the palate, just like Burt Reynolds on a bear skin rug.
From up there, this ball of swirling blues and whites, suspended in the inky blackness of space, looks fragile, especially against the perilous backdrop of climate change.
Look east to the New Year’s first sunrise as it stains the sky above the glassy river pink and turns its banks and islets into inky silhouettes.
She was known only as ‘Sarah the African,’ and history has left us few traces of her: just some battered posters, inky clippings, and burlesque scripts.
The main auditorium features whimsical Mediterranean-inspired architecture under a simulated inky night sky complete with twinkling stars and projected clouds.
There, the men disrobe and proceed to sink into an inky black floor that promptly implodes their bodies.
To eye it was a world of muted gray and inky blue, accented by the bright moon.
Artist Namrata Soni accentuated the actor's make-up with an inky blue eye-liner and matte pink lips.
He appealed to all stakeholders especially those in the inky fraternity to travel the extra mile to market the region so as to woo investors to compliment efforts by government to improve socio-economic wellbeing of the people.
Steep cliffs plunge into the inky waters of the Tasman Sea inlet as waterfalls rush down their sides and New Zealand fur seals sunbathe on the rocks below.
The itch on the brain, the obsessive looped thinking, the fixation on aspects of my health, the fear that this time it won't go away and I'll be stuck in its inky black ocean forever.
The shop Inky Baby specialized in children’s clothing with classic, reversible designs, meant to fit a variety of sizes.
Common combinations with inky
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: