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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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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.
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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
On a pitch-black evening, on the anniversary of Ye’s, (f.k.a.
—Mark Braboy, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
The first approach by Juno took place last year on Dec. 30.
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The highly detailed images of Io, captured by Juno on Feb. 3, show the moon partially illuminated against the pitch-black backdrop of space.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
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
On a pitch-black evening, on the anniversary of Ye’s, (f.k.a.
—Mark Braboy, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
The first approach by Juno took place last year on Dec. 30.
MORE: Astronomers make rare discovery of star eating up planet
The highly detailed images of Io, captured by Juno on Feb. 3, show the moon partially illuminated against the pitch-black backdrop of space.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
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“Pitch-black.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch-black. Accessed 15 May. 2024.
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