How to Use blackness in a Sentence

blackness

noun
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  • Those pinpricks of light in the vast blackness spark curiosity, wonder and awe.
    — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 30 May 2024
  • Behind and around the three of us, a blackness crept up.
    — Aria Beth Sloss, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a ring around the Earth where the sun is starting to peak over the horizon, and above, the inky blackness of space.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2022
  • There’s also this blackness while at the same time this huge ball of fire, our sun, in the same frame.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Around this time a small green light appears, high up in the inky blackness that used to be a sky.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Come ‘round, see blackness in action and have a good time.
    — Dwight Brown, Essence, 18 May 2022
  • In the distance, two pinprick white lights emerge from the blackness.
    — James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018
  • At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little stars.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2024
  • This was the moment when the blurred blackness began to appear.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 18 Feb. 2022
  • An impromptu search crew put on headlamps and scoured the beach in the blackness that first night.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2022
  • Now the blackness has reached its apex, occluding all but a sliver of light.
    — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Not much more than 2½ hours later, in almost the same spot, the moon went down, a slender crescent of white against the blackness.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Wolves were fighting in the blackness of a February night 35 miles from Home Depot!
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The capsule’s cameras sent back a picture of the world — a tiny blue orb surrounded by blackness.
    — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The capsule's cameras sent back a picture of the Earth — a tiny blue dot surrounded by blackness.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Our planet, as seen from Saturn at almost one billion miles away is a tiny speck in the vast blackness of space.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness.
    — Fox News, 24 June 2021
  • There Saturn will sit among the blackness of space, a tiny cartoon world encircled by rings.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Even in pitch-blackness, bats can skirt around branches and pluck minuscule insects from the sky.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Suddenly, she was startled by the sound of rapidly flapping wings in the blackness.
    — Jill Spivey Caddell, Longreads, 26 May 2022
  • Little shiny dots were scattered about her outfit, but in my confused state, the blackness threw me.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The chapel is entered from the south, which can feel like a sudden plunge from blinding Texas sunshine into pitch blackness.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
  • In the deep blackness of the sky, unmarred by light pollution, stars glimmered from horizon to horizon.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The play takes gayness, queerness, blackness and reveals some truths about it all –- some harder to swallow.
    — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • For the princess, after the spectacular city lights, there was only blackness.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Leaves crunched underfoot as my eyes adjusted to the blackness.
    — Taylor Eisenhauer, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Our long and memorable evening ended in pitch blackness.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Or, like me, gazing through the glass to the glittering lights below, the slashing rain, the milky sky that faded so quickly into blackness.
    — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • The surf slams, invisible a few feet away in the profound blackness, the undertow sucking back, the stormy breeze dizzying.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In the midnight blackness this spring after the Jersey Pride returned to port, the vessel’s mate and deckhands described a job-site turnaround.
    — C.j. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024

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