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

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

I lay there for a long time staring at total blackness and knew that never again would I sleep in the woods with a light heart.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson