How to Use inkwell in a Sentence

inkwell

noun
  • An inkwell stares at me with one black eye, with a glint in its pupil.
    — Vladimir Nabokov, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
  • One of the tools used for this task involved the inkwell or ink horn.
    — Charlene Paparizos, cleveland.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Those items include a griddle, buttons, marbles, a spoon and an inkwell.
    — Jonathan Hunley, Washington Post, 25 June 2017
  • The other, a fox coat, is jet-black, dark like an inkwell, and reaches mid-thigh with two silver buttons.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2019
  • The classroom is re-created with great attention to detail, right down to the apple on the teacher’s desk and the blue-black stains around the pupils’ inkwells.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • But the inkwell would be bored without a quill, the quill without paper, the paper without a desk, the desk without a room, the room without a house, the house without a town.
    — Vladimir Nabokov, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
  • There is a desk with an Arts and Crafts-era bronze envelope holder and inkwell, and a desk lamp from Bode Aujla’s home.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Encourage the production of marvelous examples of design, like inkwells and cigar boxes.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • One of the show’s centerpieces is a bust by Salvador Dalí of a mannequin with a baguette (topped with an inkwell) balanced on her head and two corn cobs around her neck.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2017
  • Meanwhile, an inkwell is topped by France's national animal, the Gallic rooster.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 29 June 2017
  • Then Lazlo Biro patented the ballpoint pen in 1938 and inkwells rapidly became a quaint reminder of the past.
    — OregonLive.com, 4 June 2017
  • In addition to a fountain pen and rollerball pen, the Prestige Writing Kit includes a base recalling the launch pad of a rocket and an inkwell.
    — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The museum also owns 11 of Zelda's paintings, personal belongings like an inkwell and beaded purse, and first editions of Fitzgerald's novels.
    — Beth J. Harpaz, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • The cartoonist, and the undisclosed person in Douglas County who altered the image, had to know that using Floyd’s death as a narrative would allow the issue of race to spill from the inkwell onto the drawing pad.
    — Sam Adams, The Denver Post, 17 July 2020

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