blackness

Example Sentences

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“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

This white haziness in their lungs, where there should only be the empty blackness of air, is commonly the mark of a tuberculosis infection.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

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

By the end, Sakamoto appears to be playing in inky blackness, with one light standing in for the moon shining over his left shoulder.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024

He holds me while my shoulders shake and the sun relinquishes its last beam, giving way to blackness.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam