Examples of pitch-black in a Sentence
finding anything in a pitch-black room is almost impossible
a pitch-black cat with green eyes
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Much is made throughout the movie about the pitch-black nature of the songs Springsteen was recording; at one point, Landau—who went from writing about Springsteen to managing him—tells his wife that the songs sound like they’ve been made by a guilty man.
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Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Fall and winter puffer jackets of yore typically came in a range of predictable colorways, spanning from the pitch-black to the off-white, with the occasional pastel pink, burgundy, or deep green sprinkled here and there.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
For much of its running time, Speak No Evil is a pitch-black comedy of manners, with Bjørn and Louise pushed to the limits of their politeness by Patrick and Karin’s increasingly erratic behavior.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Imagine a pitch-black screen in which each of its millions of tiny pixels can turn on or off individually, letting even tiny flecks of light in space burn with their own perfect light.
—Ryan Waniata, Wired News, 8 Oct. 2025
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Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Fall and winter puffer jackets of yore typically came in a range of predictable colorways, spanning from the pitch-black to the off-white, with the occasional pastel pink, burgundy, or deep green sprinkled here and there.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
For much of its running time, Speak No Evil is a pitch-black comedy of manners, with Bjørn and Louise pushed to the limits of their politeness by Patrick and Karin’s increasingly erratic behavior.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Imagine a pitch-black screen in which each of its millions of tiny pixels can turn on or off individually, letting even tiny flecks of light in space burn with their own perfect light.
—Ryan Waniata, Wired News, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Pitch-black.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch-black. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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