pitch-black

Example Sentences

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Things grow even weirder, alternately pitch-black to the point of slapstick, when Walter’s wife dies and the two men engage in a strange pas de deux.

From New York Times

The book’s news items seem almost like prompts for his novels, especially the pitch-black early ones.

From New York Times

In the pitch-black streets, passing headlights revealed mounds of rubble, frames of broken windows, and entangled rebar.

From Reuters

Part dance troupe, part electronic spectacle, the Light Balance Kids suit up in head-to-toe black costumes lined with LED lights and perform on a pitch-black stage.

From New York Times

How jumbled must Rodgers’s mind be that he needs to spend nearly a week in pitch-black solitude to figure out his next move?

From Washington Post