blackness

Example Sentences

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For white authors and readers, Morrison argued, blackness has been more metaphoric than real, a signifier of certain behavioral expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

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

Onstage, he just stood there and gazed out into the blackness.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

It spanned the opening to the port, a steel-blue pair of upper lips greeting the blackness.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini