pitch-dark
Example Sentences
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Battalion members prepared the drones in pitch dark, illuminated only by red torches.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
The sky is pitch dark with smoke when she and her husband evacuate at 7:30 p.m with huge embers raining down around them.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
It was pitch dark at night because the area was still out of power.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024
"It was pitch dark, there were checkpoints, men in balaclavas with guns. I was so scared I took pills to calm me," Tetyana remembers of the rest of the trip into occupied eastern Ukraine.
From BBC • May 30, 2023
She would know Mirabelle in pitch dark by one cry of her voice—no, one touch of her hand.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
