How to Use pitch-dark in a Sentence

pitch-dark

adjective

• In the pitch-dark room, Heath remembers hearing the call to prayer in the morning.
  — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• On a Saturday morning in July, my mom’s silhouette appears in the doorway of my pitch-dark childhood bedroom.
  — Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2022
• Berger based his claim on the fossils being found in narrow, pitch-dark chambers, far from natural entrances or evidence of animal activity.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
• Despite hundreds of Americans being fired or suspended by employers as a result, the pitch-dark humor that permeates our social media ecosystem was not to be suppressed.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2025
• One of the officers, a special-forces commando who discussed the operation on condition of anonymity, recalls lying in the pitch-dark belly of a river barge alongside dozens of his comrades, all of them armed to the hilt, eyeing one another through night-vision goggles.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
• The music is quiet but powerful, blending pitch-dark tones and sunny melodies in ways that can recall Elliott Smith, Joanna Newsom, and Animal Collective, among other left-field heroes.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026
• Fittingly, the song’s thumping beat is heard twice, real loud, in Rosebush Pruning, Karim Aїnouz’s high-gloss, pitch-dark satire about an American family described by one of its scions as mediocre, vapid egotists, who will never have to work thanks to a large inheritance.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
• The 21st century has yielded no shortage of stylish horror marbled with devious veins of pitch-dark humor — Peter Strickland’s In Fabric, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies, Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, pretty much every Jordan Peele feature.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026