How to Use pitch-dark in a Sentence
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In the pitch-dark room, Heath remembers hearing the call to prayer in the morning.
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Paul Tenorio,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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On a Saturday morning in July, my mom’s silhouette appears in the doorway of my pitch-dark childhood bedroom.
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Caitlin Gunther,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Sep. 2022
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Berger based his claim on the fossils being found in narrow, pitch-dark chambers, far from natural entrances or evidence of animal activity.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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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.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Dec. 2025
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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.
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Simon Shuster,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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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.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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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.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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