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Examples of pitch-black in a Sentence
finding anything in a pitch-black room is almost impossible
a pitch-black cat with green eyes
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The installation required a pitch-black screening room and the film began with a six-minute scene of the descent down the shaft.
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Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 10 May 2024
Dashcam video shown in court during day three of Karen Read's murder trial was the public's first glimpse of the night Boston police officer John O'Keefe was killed, but the footage was obscured by heavy snowfall and police flashlights against the pitch-black night sky.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 6 May 2024
Her mother-in-law and husband carried her on their shoulders, stumbling between tents in the pitch-black night, somehow managing to avoid shelling, airstrikes, and stray dogs.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Rescuers arrived quickly and began the search in the pitch-black night, cutting and removing concrete slabs with chain saws and excavators.
—Constant Méheut Oksana Parafeniuk, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
The boat departed after midnight and immediately ran into a fierce storm in the pitch-black ocean.
—Marlon Sorto, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
Inside the path of totality, the sky will suddenly darken to a deep twilight and the Sun’s magnificent corona will appear around the pitch-black disk of the eclipsing Moon.
—Michael Zeiler, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
How Kentucky elk went from extinction to a herd 11,000 strong
Harless drove us around the perimeter of Dewey Lake underneath the pitch-black sky.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 20 Feb. 2024
One model's straight, pitch-black hair was swept back into a ponytail to highlight the white strands along her hairline.
—Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 14 Feb. 2024
Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 10 May 2024
Dashcam video shown in court during day three of Karen Read's murder trial was the public's first glimpse of the night Boston police officer John O'Keefe was killed, but the footage was obscured by heavy snowfall and police flashlights against the pitch-black night sky.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 6 May 2024
Her mother-in-law and husband carried her on their shoulders, stumbling between tents in the pitch-black night, somehow managing to avoid shelling, airstrikes, and stray dogs.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Rescuers arrived quickly and began the search in the pitch-black night, cutting and removing concrete slabs with chain saws and excavators.
—Constant Méheut Oksana Parafeniuk, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
The boat departed after midnight and immediately ran into a fierce storm in the pitch-black ocean.
—Marlon Sorto, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
Inside the path of totality, the sky will suddenly darken to a deep twilight and the Sun’s magnificent corona will appear around the pitch-black disk of the eclipsing Moon.
—Michael Zeiler, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
How Kentucky elk went from extinction to a herd 11,000 strong
Harless drove us around the perimeter of Dewey Lake underneath the pitch-black sky.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 20 Feb. 2024
One model's straight, pitch-black hair was swept back into a ponytail to highlight the white strands along her hairline.
—Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 14 Feb. 2024
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“Pitch-black.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch-black. Accessed 19 May. 2024.
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