How to Use blackness in a Sentence

blackness

noun
  • The building jolts and is cloaked in blackness.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • Around this time a small green light appears, high up in the inky blackness that used to be a sky.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2022
  • In the distance, two pinprick white lights emerge from the blackness.
    — James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018
  • There’s also this blackness while at the same time this huge ball of fire, our sun, in the same frame.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Now the blackness has reached its apex, occluding all but a sliver of light.
    — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • This was the moment when the blurred blackness began to appear.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The idea of blackness like that has been pursued by scientists for decades.
    — New Atlas, 26 June 2026
  • An impromptu search crew put on headlamps and scoured the beach in the blackness that first night.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2022
  • When something splashed in the blackness, Evelyn thought of rats.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little stars.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Idle outside on a warm summer evening and let the inky blackness envelope you.
    — Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025
  • One hour becomes two, two become three, my mind straining for answers in the blackness.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Little shiny dots were scattered about her outfit, but in my confused state, the blackness threw me.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Even in pitch-blackness, bats can skirt around branches and pluck minuscule insects from the sky.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Only his beard breaks the blackness, the white cascading down his vestments.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 14 May 2026
  • Smoke and blackness enfolded him.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, shone above the horizon, brilliant against the blackness.
    — Nicholas J. R. White Kat Hill, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The pressure and pitch-blackness no longer felt foreign or oppressive.
    — Ayana Underwood, Outside, 20 Sep. 2025
  • In each image, a patch of purple with neon pink veins floats in the blackness of space, surrounded by flecks of light.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2025
  • There are no clouds or rain or snow, just a sky that’s only the blackness of space, with a surface baked by the Sun.
    — Thomas Orlando, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Leaves crunched underfoot as my eyes adjusted to the blackness.
    — Taylor Eisenhauer, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness.
    — Fox News, 24 June 2021
  • There’s a ring around the Earth where the sun is starting to peak over the horizon, and above, the inky blackness of space.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The capsule’s cameras sent back a picture of the world — a tiny blue orb surrounded by blackness.
    — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Suddenly, she was startled by the sound of rapidly flapping wings in the blackness.
    — Jill Spivey Caddell, Longreads, 26 May 2022
  • There Saturn will sit among the blackness of space, a tiny cartoon world encircled by rings.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Those pinpricks of light in the vast blackness spark curiosity, wonder and awe.
    — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 30 May 2024
  • Our planet, as seen from Saturn at almost one billion miles away is a tiny speck in the vast blackness of space.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The play takes gayness, queerness, blackness and reveals some truths about it all –- some harder to swallow.
    — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The blue sky gave way to the blackness of space about 8 minutes and 4o seconds after leaving the ground.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2025

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