How to Use fade to black in a Sentence

fade to black

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  • Players have to press them and make their moves before the colors fade to black again.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Simply twist up the crayon, run it over grays, and watch those light hairs fade to black (or brown).
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 27 July 2024
  • The fade to black will make the viewer watching today feel insane.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2022
  • Should the high court step in to block it, the fade to black on TikTok would be put off.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Players have to touch the tiles to reveal their hues and then make their moves before the squares fade to black again.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The episode ends there, because Bravo knows when to fade to black—right before the group chat explodes.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The decision to fade to black instead of revealing what the two see was an easy one for Ball.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
  • The decision to fade to black instead of revealing what the two saw was an easy one for Ball.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
  • Scenes fade to black in a dramatic fashion even though nothing intense has happened.
    Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Gunfire continues to rattle in the distance during the fade to black.
    Reid McCarter, Wired, 10 Apr. 2021
  • But on Monday, Holsten’s employees and customers saw their time with the booth fade to black.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The singers later hit a series of solo dance moves of their own and participate in a standoff before the lights fade to black.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2023
  • But omicron and a pandemic that stubbornly refuses to fade to black had other plans.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Elegantly edited in segments that fade to black as the ice thaws between the siblings, there’s an air of timelessness.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • Washington has seen a number of popular restaurants fade to black during the pandemic.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Late in the novel, an emergency pulls Michael and Melissa back together, and too swiftly things fade to black.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Sunday’s loser will see its playoff hopes realistically fade to black.
    Greg Cote october 2, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The director even seems to be toying with the viewer’s patience here, with each scene ending on an almost excruciatingly long fade to black.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2024
  • The director even seems to be toying with the viewer’s patience here, with each scene ending on an almost excruciatingly long fade to black.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
  • After a fade to black, Nik is then shown in the next scene, alive but handcuffed to a hospital bed, inside Schwarzau Prison in Austria.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 16 June 2023
  • Without a clear cultural conscience and serious financial support coming from our federal government, so much of the arts, culture, entertainment and screens industries are looking at a short, grey future before a quick fade to black.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020

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