blackness
Example Sentences
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"What struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe," said Koch.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“You turn off the lights and they just tumble into the blackness of space,” he told me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
All eyewitnesses like Samia* can say for certain is that the lights went out suddenly, plunging D Chowk, the square where they had gathered, into blackness.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
Delighted to be out of the hopper’s blackness, Lupita followed him up the ladder, through the turret, and down the exterior steps to the ground.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
