blackness

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Recent Examples of blackness After a surge of spring storms, Mr. Jacobs descended into freezing blackness for the third time in late February. Sruthi Gurudev Jules Jacobs, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 Flying your favorite spacecraft is as simple as plopping down in the captain’s chair to engage in some hairy dogfights and clandestine patrols over strange worlds or the inky cosmic blackness as the gameplay shifts from a standard FPS to a third-person perspective. Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2025 Perry and crew experienced a few minutes of weightlessness and got to see Earth against the blackness of space. Mike Wall, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025 The text gets smaller and quieter in the next three panels, followed by three extraordinary solid panels of inky blackness. Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blackness
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Noun
  • Flaunt this fun, floral style, or opt for their best-selling classic black.
    Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Take your pick from black to mocha to crisp, winter white.
    Taylor Jean Stephan, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Ditto for pale eyeshadow applied over the entire lid, which appears even more like clown eyes when a dark (and often uneven) eyeliner is applied.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
  • The search was suspended at dark on Thursday and resumed Friday morning.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Coast Guard helicopters and planes are assisting to ensure search operations can continue even in darkness.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025
  • Down the road, Kulak and her family stood alone in Chimney Rock Village, scraping, painting and rebuilding as nightfall cast the town into darkness.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Anthony’s homer headlined a night of wild firsts for the Red Sox.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
  • Chicago Sky star Angel Reese added to the chorus of complaints about WNBA officials following the team’s 80-75 loss to the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday night.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Winged Photo Competition Winners At dusk, a family of six Honduran white bats roost on the underside of a leaf, preparing to take off in search of their dinner.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • These fogging operations take place at dusk, when mosquitoes are most active and looking for food, officials said.
    Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • How to view planet alignment 2025 Planet parades must be observed during twilight between dawn and sunset so a glowing sky does not obscure the view.
    Marina Johnson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Amidst the urban twilight, two friends take photos at one of the last New York City phone booths when the phone begins to ring.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • And creator Sarah Williams does a remarkable job transitioning from early storylines about a big, warm, eccentric family to later episodes that weigh Diana and Unity’s monstrous choices without succumbing to doom and gloom.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
  • There was just one happy ending amidst all this doom and gloom, as Sae-byeok (Hoyeon) got her wish from beyond the grave.
    EW.com, EW.com, 27 June 2025

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“Blackness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackness. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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