blackness

Example Sentences

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But she never shirks from the hard facts of the Du Bois history, or that of blackness in this country.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"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

“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

She could think of the boy without bringing the blackness on.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu