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
But I was just as transfixed by the absolute blackness of the moon within.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen—by conflagration: but how kindled?
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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