How to Use pitch-black in a Sentence

pitch-black

adjective
  • The team is out for the third night in a row, walking the pitch-black beach.
    Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The pitch-black vacuum of space laughs.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 22 May 2026
  • But what about when your heart is pitch-black and your conscience is absent?
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Distant lights – maybe car lights or fireflies – dance across a pitch-black night scene.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Here, her eyes were drenched in pitch-black shadow, while her lips were lightly blushed.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The pitch-black night sky lit up in fiery hues of crimson and tangerine.
    Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Headlights are easy to see for someone walking down a pitch-black street.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sasha tried to see his surroundings through the pitch-black southern darkness.
    Vladimir Sorokin, Harper's Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The video cuts to pitch-black and everything goes quiet — except for the sound of his breathing.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Michelle also designed the underside of the talons, painting them with a pitch-black hue.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Inside a vacuum chamber, three tiny, pitch-black cubes of graphene aerogel were placed.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Those who attack guards or start fights are sent to small solitary confinement cells that are kept nearly pitch-black.
    George Petras, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Say my headlamp and my backup headlamp went out, and I was left to fend for myself in the pitch-black.
    Julia Sullivan, Outside, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The group of about 20 cars struggled to drive through unpaved roads in near pitch-black conditions.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This formula has a pitch-black tint to instantly make lashes look fuller and more defined.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Skims also has the thong in a barely-there blue and a pitch-black Obsidian.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 8 May 2025
  • Whitby jet is renowned for being pitch-black in color and tough in temperament.
    Emili Vesilind, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
  • There’s something about being in the pitch-black of night that makes your mind work illogically.
    Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The cave was pitch-black, silent, and alive with what looked like a galaxy of bioluminescent stars.
    Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026
  • To descend to the pitch-black floor of a crater, Chang’e-7 will deploy a novel hopping probe.
    Reuters, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The beach was pitch-black and dangerous, the waves ferociously slamming the shore.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Fox reverted to her pitch-black hair color, adding front waves around her face and spiraling a piece of hair on her forehead.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 10 June 2025

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