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Examples of pitch-dark in a Sentence
with its only light burned out, the closet was pitch-dark
on a whim she bleached her pitch-dark hair blond
Recent Examples on the Web
The book also shares with Park’s films a pitch-dark, absurdist humor.
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Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
In the 52 years since then, only a few unmanned probes have been down to those pitch-dark deeps.
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IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2012
In Merlo’s delirious play—staged by the director Jack Serio with the audience seated at a long table in a pitch-dark room—a genderqueer teen is missing, and their detective father is on the case.
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The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
The pitch-dark periphery engulfing the stage, a signature of the director Michael Greif, encourages such moments of tunnel vision, though O’Hara accomplishes the effect on her own.
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Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
Two young men sat next to it, around a fire, in an otherwise pitch-dark street, their feet covered in mud and clothes in dust.
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Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
Noah Agemo for Fortune The snow is falling heavily in Stockholm, but inside a small, pitch-dark auditorium, the atmosphere is cozy and warm.
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Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023
Lines formed at old wells as people lugged jugs of water to pitch-dark apartments in Kyiv.
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Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
Astyanax mexicanus cave fish have adapted to an incredibly tough environment: chilly, pitch-dark caves that flood about once a year, providing brief feasts separated by long periods of starvation.
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Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1704, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near pitch-dark
Cite this Entry
“Pitch-dark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch-dark. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
pitch-dark
adjectiveˈpich-ˈdärk
: extremely dark
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