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

It is blackness that refuses to accept subjugation, to give up.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2024

The blackness of the sky began to lighten and an old peddler came out of a doorway, the creaking of his cart echoing in the silence of the upcoming dawn.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin