pitch-dark
Example Sentences
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Battalion members prepared the drones in pitch dark, illuminated only by red torches.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
The sky is pitch dark with smoke when she and her husband evacuate at 7:30 p.m with huge embers raining down around them.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
"I can't swim," he kept telling the men around him, as they shuffled down the wet slipway in the pitch dark, towards the icy waves.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2024
It was pitch dark at night because the area was still out of power.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024
By the end of the second day I was getting very hungry and a bit tired of sitting in absolute pitch dark.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
