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
Seeing our planet surrounded by the blackness of space "truly emphasised how alike we are, how the same thing keeps every single person on planet Earth alive," Koch said from space.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 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
It is blackness that refuses to accept subjugation, to give up.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2024
Uncle Jet grumbled from the opposite end of the hogan, covered completely in blackness.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
