blackness
Example Sentences
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The cloud—the lightning, the blackness—was coming faster and faster.
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He could see nothing at all: blackness, and a roar.
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Panicked thoughts bounce at me through the blackness.
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Dark, nearly black, almost blue in its blackness, melanin black.
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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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.