black swan in English

noun

1

a mainly black swan with white flight feathers, which is common in Australia and Tasmania and has been introduced widely elsewhere.

There were black swans and white swans in the park, and a huge dolls' house where rabbits lived.

2

an unpredictable or unforeseen event, typically one with extreme consequences.

geopolitical black swan events, such as the Arab Spring and the Japanese earthquake, have further complicated the market dynamics

Use "black swan" in a sentence

1. Welcome to the Black Swan.

2. A black swan is rare.

3. Mr Miller is a black swan, an honest lawyer!

4. Pub reopens: Darlington's Black Swan pub reopens on Monday after refurbishment.

5. Calenture: Island (0) 1989 : The Black Swan: Mushroom Records (0) 1 / 5

6. Now, a black swan can be a negative event like a banking crisis.

7. The Sussex controversy pales in comparison to the trouble stirred up over Odyssey's Black Swan Project.

8. In fact, I tried in The Black Swan to turn a lot of black swans white!

9. Village inns such as the Black Swan at Ravenstonedale were used as depots where raw material was left and finished work collected.

10. The conflict took place as the credits rolled during a screen of the Oscar-nominated film "Black Swan", according to police in the Baltic state.

11. After gently gliding over still waters on the back of a black swan, you return to the steps of the canalside quay where your journey began.

12. While she has the technical expertise to pull off the White Swan portion of the role, she lacks the seductiveness he desires for the evil doppelganger Black Swan portion.

13. It is like watching a video of Rudolf Nureyev being the black swan and then expecting to be able to twirl round the living room in a similar fashion yourself.

14. Torgovnick's fears are certainly well-intentioned, but there's no evidence that women aspire to look like the characters in "Black Swan, " and in any event eating disorders are not contagious.

15. In the third act of "Swan Lake," the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly endless series of turns, bobbing up and down on one pointed foot and spinning around, and around, and around 32 times.

16. Dance Spirit Magazine wrote, “Dressed as the black swan Odile, Osmond bourréed, Arabesqued, and generally flew across the ice to snag a well-deserved bronze.” “When I hit my ending position I didn't want it to end,” Osmond said.

17. 81.0 x 42.5 x 23.0, Red Earthenware, tin glaze, oxides Large vase made of three sections of combined thrown elements to form the female torso; on one side Leda is drawn being attacked by the black swan-hair of Leda forms one handle, neck of swan forms the other; flowers are painted growing up on base; on other side a vase with black swans strutting across a white band, with acanthus leaves in a band around the top and bottom edges of the vase which is sitting in a field of tulips.