How to Use pitch-black in a Sentence
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The team is out for the third night in a row, walking the pitch-black beach.
—Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
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The sky is pitch-black and the hum of insects the only sound in the cloud forest.
—Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2023
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On a pitch-black evening, on the anniversary of Ye’s, (f.k.a.
—Mark Braboy, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
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Ahead of them, the race’s 55-mile course curled into the still pitch-black winter day.
—Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2023
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In the fourth and final season of the pitch-black show business satire, Hader was at the elm of each of the eight episodes.
—Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
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The pitch-black night sky lit up in fiery hues of crimson and tangerine.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
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But the footage was obscured by heavy snowfall and flashing lights of the police cars against the pitch-black night sky.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 28 May 2024
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The rooms are pitch-black save for a small hole in the ceiling, two stories above, that allows in a sliver of light.
—David Culver, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
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The pitch-black ending must have shocked audiences in 1948.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
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The video cuts to pitch-black and everything goes quiet — except for the sound of his breathing.
—Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 26 Jan. 2024
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The first volume features a beige color scheme, the second volume a pitch-black one, and the third has a dark blue hue.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
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Headlights are easy to see for someone walking down a pitch-black street.
—Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2024
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The group of about 20 cars struggled to drive through unpaved roads in near pitch-black conditions.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 26 July 2024
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Above all, her mindset during the 24-7, pitch-black months has proved that there is, in fact, always a bright side to living in the dark.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Michelle also designed the underside of the talons, painting them with a pitch-black hue.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
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To add to the troubles, night time is truly pitch-black — even a torch only allows the player to see a few feet in front of them.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
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The installation required a pitch-black screening room and the film began with a six-minute scene of the descent down the shaft.
—Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 10 May 2024
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Sasha tried to see his surroundings through the pitch-black southern darkness.
—Vladimir Sorokin, Harper's Magazine, 13 July 2022
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The beach was pitch-black and dangerous, the waves ferociously slamming the shore.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
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There was really only one true answer: lots and lots of pitch-black, butt-length hair.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 21 Oct. 2024
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Zoom in: Divers worked in 20-minute shifts around the wreckage, swimming through the pitch-black depths and taking breaks at times to replace their suits, torn by debris.
—Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
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One model's straight, pitch-black hair was swept back into a ponytail to highlight the white strands along her hairline.
—Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 14 Feb. 2024
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In the pitch-black afternoon, when only the orange of the embers pierced through the thick plumes of smoke, Hingano stopped shivering for a moment.
—Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
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On top of a pitch-black base, Bachik added the individual blooms in white, blue, yellow, and purple hues.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 17 Feb. 2023
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The result is a script that melds family-friendly goofiness with the pitch-black comedy that White is known for.
—Chris Stanton, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2023
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Laced with pitch-black humor and ending on a thrilling cliffhanger, Sweetpea is one of the most surprisingly great shows of 2024.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
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For the event, the stadium was pitch-black except for the replica home, which was burning and surrounded by water.
—Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
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Hours later, reporters were in Altadena as fire trucks raced to the Eaton fire, navigating the pitch-black streets.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Behind him is a frightening future image of the Earth as seen from space: fire-red continents and pitch-black oceans.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
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Memory of a Broken Dimension uses glitch textures laid on top of pitch-black spaces as a way to light the contours of the world’s abstract shapes.
—Yussef Cole, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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