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

It is blackness that refuses to accept subjugation, to give up.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 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

"The beauty of it… the sharp contrast between the blackness of space and the horizon of the Moon… I'll never forget it. It was so dramatic."

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024

In the blackness of the eternal night, all the wickedest creatures—the trolls and banshees and ogres—have driven the good creatures into hiding.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish