inkwell

[US]/'ɪŋkwel/
[UK]/'ɪŋkwɛl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. A small container for holding ink, used for storing ink.
Word Forms
Pluralinkwells

Example Sentences

He dipped his quill into the inkwell to write a love letter.

The antique desk came with a beautiful silver inkwell.

She carefully refilled the inkwell with black ink.

The inkwell tipped over, spilling ink all over the desk.

He absentmindedly tapped his fingers on the inkwell while thinking.

The inkwell was a cherished family heirloom passed down for generations.

She kept a feather quill next to the inkwell for writing letters.

The inkwell was knocked off the table and shattered into pieces.

The inkwell was made of delicate porcelain with intricate designs.

She carefully cleaned the ink stains from the inkwell with a soft cloth.

Real-world Examples

And the pianos are stained black inside from the times he's knocked the inkwell with his sleeve.

Source: Beethoven lives upstairs from me.

One morning she poured the contents of an inkwell over the boy's head thinking that it was rose water.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Around him all was darkness, a darkness so deep and so black that for a moment he thought he had put his head into an inkwell.

Source: The Adventures of Pinocchio

There was a lot of stuff on the desk, including a row of books between bronze elephants, and an old-fashioned square glass inkwell.

Source: The Long Farewell (Part Two)

He opened a huge dusty book and drew it to him and dipped a foul pen into an inkwell filled with what looked like coal dust.

Source: The Sound and the Fury

In the background were the shelves with the shredded books, the rolls of parchment, and the clean and orderly worktablewith the ink still fresh in the inkwells.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

The same thing happened to her with the string to the pen and even with her own arm, which after a short time of writing could not reach the inkwell.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

She tied the pen and the blotter to the leg of the table, and she glued the inkwell to the top of it to the right of the placewhere she normally wrote.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

He walked very fast along the corridor, the note to McGonagall clutched tight in his hand, and turning a corner walked slap into Peeves the poltergeist, a wide-mouthed little man floating on his back in midair, juggling several inkwells.

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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