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Recent Examples of pitch-black Prisoners who get out of line face up to 14 days in pitch-black solitary confinement, says Garcia. Eric Cortellessa, Time, 10 June 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 Just 12 hours after entering a pitch-black, 400-square-foot cabin dug into the hillside in southern Oregon, crypto founder Charles Hoskinson fled in terror. Mattha Busby, Wired News, 4 June 2025 Skims also has the thong in a barely-there blue and a pitch-black Obsidian. Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pitch-black
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitch-black
Adjective
  • Reckoning are also holding on in their eighth weeks of release, but while the former has long-since surpassed its budget, the latter is still fighting to cross into the black globally.
    Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 13 July 2025
  • Tempest’s description evokes a dreamlike horror, laced with black humor: Men were still stuck in the mud all over the battlefield, imploring help to lift them out : half crazy with the sense of their own impotence, and the enemy shelling. . . .
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • Transformed into a swan by the evil sorcerer Rothbart, Odette and Siegfried's love faces an impossible battle against dark forces.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2025
  • Number two, male, white, tall, gray hair, dark eyes.
    Danielle Bacher, People.com, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • Following his four-time Oscar-winning 2019 smash, the director returns in Mickey 17 to sci-fi, skewering autocracy and even attempted genocide in a pitch-dark comedy about colonization.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Geo News and broadcaster ARY both reported that a massive raid was launched by security forces in pitch-dark central Islamabad, where lights had been turned off and a barrage of tear gas was fired.
    Reuters, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Anton and his second wife adopted Jean sometime during the Depression, but the details are murky.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • While the Celtics have made a couple of small additions, the future is still a bit murky.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025

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“Pitch-black.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitch-black. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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