blackness

Example Sentences

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"What struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe," said Koch.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

“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

“You turn off the lights and they just tumble into the blackness of space,” he told me.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

All eyewitnesses like Samia* can say for certain is that the lights went out suddenly, plunging D Chowk, the square where they had gathered, into blackness.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

I’m powerless to stop it so I brace myself, but in the end it isn’t necessary because the blackness swallows me before it hits.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen