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

Onstage, he just stood there and gazed out into the blackness.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 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

Then the blackness above me is broken by a sliver of light.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen