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Sentence Examples Everything took on a dreamlike sense of unreality, and faded into blackness. As their words evoke the McCarthy era, we are reminded of the blackness of the postwar period. The shades of gray in their relationship make the blackness of her home life seem overdone. There was no way to measure the time she had been sunk in a blackness, the utter depths where nothing stirred. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through. A tide of blackness ebbed into his consciousness, a rolling fog slowly distorting his thoughts. The angels were gasping as they stepped closer, eyes wide as Desdemona was quickly surrounded by that blackness again. It was bubbling and churning, and fingers of blackness probed and stabbed out of the front of it, marking him. There's a tightrope to walk between honesty and hysteria, emotional blackness and emotional blackmail. Those answers mean a lot, Mosley says, because it's troubling when biracial people seem to bleach away their blackness with European pride. There was grey moonlight coming in, lighting a patch of floor just in front of the window but leaving the rest of the room in blackness. Oaks swayed overhead, and a bird twittered sharply from far off, its call echoing through the fading blackness. Also, the curtains themselves are not completely opaque, so that the light shows through as two slightly blueish areas against the blackness. She sat bolt upright, crying out for her mother in fright at the noise, terrified by the pitch blackness around her. From the aeroplane's window is a night-time scene of sheer blackness, broken only by orange spots of the Bedouin fires. But the sky was dark, the tiny specks in the sky sparkling dimly in the pitch blackness. You know, creepy images on videotape and icky looking kids lurking in the back blackness of the frame. A small globe, covered with lines, solidified into a blue, green, and white ball, spinning in blackness. With her pupils dilated to blackness, and spitting vituperation in all directions, the very last thing she seems is sane. You slowly straightened your tired shoulders, and some of the haggardness slipped from your face as a smile of determination broke its blackness. Show More Sentences The Knight just looked out into the blackness of the region, a half-moon shining down from above. Emperor shrimp danced over sea cucumbers' backs and stargazers gazed into the blackness with their sad smiles. The extreme atmospheric changes from streaky red sunset over blue sky to foreboding blackness felt Biblical. He held his hands out in the near blackness of the chapel, brushing against her caul. Beyond, looming into the blackness, reared a dark, heavily forested peninsula, like a giant's outthrust shoulder deflecting the sea's fury. All the varieties of blackness chromatically echo modern women's lifestyles, the pursuit of progress and breakthrough. A cloistered walkway cloaked in blackness ran around the periphery of the ground floor of the atrium. The darkness of the ink pierced into my eyes like it was incandescently glowing with blackness and burning into my soul. Rich shades of violet and indigo melted into the vast blackness of the sky. All that guided her right now was Jeff's comforting voice, piercing through the blackness, drawing her to him. On one side fields stretch out into blackness, but in front and to the right blaze thousands of halogen lamps. However, the sun was soon down below the horizon and the sky was covered with inky blackness, but her brothers were still nowhere to be seen. Suddenly she hands me her torch and wonders off into the thick inky blackness of night. Ike turned off the TV with a clap of his hand and the room was pitched instantly into inky blackness. With a gasp from the motors and a jolt, the ship surged into the overwhelming blackness of space, inky dark except for the sprinkling of stars. It felt much like a cathedral, with smooth walls of dark stone that soared up into an inky blackness. She gripped the iron edges and suspended herself in the inky blackness, as she heard footsteps going through the corridors. A week later I was driving through the blackness of a rain-swept night around the edge of the inland sea that is Rutland Water. More often than not they're long wooden buildings, creosoted to a pitchy blackness and with white-painted windows. Quietly the boats were launched, plashing outwards towards that blue light that shimmered starlike in the blackness. Show More Sentences So strong was the event that the speedy star eventually will be lost altogether, traveling alone in the blackness of intergalactic space. She shivered, seeing blackness spread out like forks of lightning from the sun. The bed's mattress deformed under the large weight, but the blackness covering the figure did not change. The first thing she saw were stars, glittering like diamonds against the blackness. Their leathery wings beat against the blackness in steady flaps, propelling them forward. After the twilight gloom of the entrance came the deepening blackness of the cave's belly. In this blackness I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that good-for-nothing hoodlum. Ivory-coloured fabrics are also available to relieve the blackness of other trims, something which can be a put-off to some owners. He attached the grapples to the edge of the pit and flung the ropes into the blackness. He had been happily sleeping without any dreams, without any images, just pitch blackness. With a smooth, effortless movement, the killer kicked the master's horn over the edge of the balcony where it spun into the blackness below. Black nationalism was centered on blackness and saw no value in white culture and religion. He is considered one of the founding fathers of Africanism, a philosophy that espoused an almost militant pride in blackness. There was a sense of wholeness and creative well-being that flowed from his embrace of rural blackness. Everything was swirling together into a mass of blackness, shot through with bolts of red, green and gold. As Peter saw Marc disappear into the blackness, he felt a dreadful sense of foreboding, hearing the splash when Marc landed. The camera teasingly zooms into the blackness outside, then eases back again. The sun had long since set, and now the headlights of passing vehicles dazzled eyes used to the blackness. As the first half of the film fades out to blackness, so does the spectator's perception of lingering domestic comfort. Suddenly an explosion flamed in space, a ribbon of orange fire slashing out of the hull like a whip, lashing out into the blackness of space. Show More Sentences What faint light was in the room was extinguished as pure blackness engulfed her. We occasionally peered into the inky blackness, left and right, to check the rime ice on the wings' leading edge. Earth appears as a tiny blue sphere surrounded by an immensity of blackness. It was such a beautiful, artistic shot, with the blackness outlining this post as it jutted up from the water. He leaned out over the small rail and was about to embrace the blackness when a truck came rumbling along the road. But what is more, many of Morrison's jazz critics reference jazz as a marker of authentic blackness. There's the piercing screech of cats fighting and the clatter of bins somewhere in the blackness. A loud bang sounded, almost like a crack of thunder, but there was no pain, only blackness. When he walks into the blackness of the entryway, he turns and wipes his feet onto the floor mat before pulling his shoes off. The white of the barren room was a stark contrast to the blackness of the hole, up through which drifted faint scuffling sounds. In the near distance, torch light flickered through the blackness, slowly moving away from her. He looked up, as the light grey mesosphere melted away, revealing the inky blackness of space beyond. Victor's flaming sword clashed against the blackness of Jack's sword with a sharp metallic clang. He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their towering heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky. These three mezzotints have a gorgeous inky blackness out of which roofs in his typical style are all but subsumed. The figure on the throne was grinning maliciously beneath the blackness of his hood. She was the one who stood out from the general indistinguishable blackness of the singers' garb. Their horizontally biased edges, along with their blackness, tie them together and also relate them to the colored bands above and below. There flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes, and the blackness of the sable drapery appalls. The ring's low height and shiny blackness suggest an experimental apparatus. Show More Sentences The blackness of the breast stripe was calculated by averaging the gray values of the pixels. The disparity seems further exaggerated by the size and blackness of the soldier's hat. One exceptional scene shows that under all the blackness there is a ray of light. Set upright and lined with fireworks, it bursts into brilliant flame against the night sky and slowly dies away to blackness. The camera pans across a galaxy of stars and planets, novae, and nebulae twinkling in the blackness. Various horrifying images pop out of the blackness and into the minimal light. It's a masterful moment that would likely lose most of its impact if not projected in the blackness of a theater. In his moody and romantic photographs, images of roads and beautiful young girls emerge out of an inky blackness. In the logic of emerging European concept of race, blackness and nationalism were mutually exclusive. The young protagonist struggles to come to terms with his own racial and ethnic identity, and to accept and embrace his blackness. This short comedy pastiches common conceptions and stereotypes of blackness and the black male. The porter tries to conceal his blackness by using a toxic chemical formula on his hair and skin. He wonders if his blackness makes him what Du Bois described as a not-fully human being who occupies the space between human and animal. They realize that their reduction to penury is due to discrimination against their blackness on the part of whites and blacks alike. The analogies deployed to regulate other minorities extend beyond the categories of blackness and whiteness. The blackness that was in rockabilly in no way constituted an innovation in country music. The authenticity and blackness in rock music is illustrated in some of the earliest published histories of rock. I think a lot about the Beatles, and the way they expressed a blackness and a soul in their singing. She is impishly marrying stereotypes of black and white beauty, placing blackness in a predictably white setting. The jazzy blackness and the minimal discord give way to hushed serenity, remolding the songs into new creatures. Show More Sentences In his early years, blackness had meant a pointillism of culture that included collard greens, grits, and pig's feet. As the wracking tears continue to come, the blackness becomes complete and there is something that happens to her mind. I was staring down at a maw of blackness that had robbed me of my hope and future. It's an etching of a floating ball of light suffusing into blackness. As the door shut behind him, a thick, insulating blackness enfolded me. I dreamt of troubled blackness, but the shadows couldn't touch me. In the amaranthine blackness, there were no days, and there were no years. It seems to me that we can exhort and hope all we want to, but the imposition of blackness, brownness, yellowness or redness is not something an individual controls. After spending seventeen minutes in blackness, trying to fumble the lock of the cellar open, Jack Moore kicked the door open with a curse and began climbing the stairs. I hope I can be there to see him on the morning he swoops in great blackness to re-enter his new palace and discovers that the window has been glazed. They splashed noisily into the water and we clambered down the pier steps, watching the ghostly glows from their torches disappear into the inky blackness. Consider the whiteness of the sword, not the blackness of the letters. She looked down at her hands, seeing nothing but inky blackness. With blackness all around it, these burning colours made Loch Shiel look like some lake of the infernal regions, an otherworldly vision, intense and remarkably beautiful. He is coming down with an earth-shaking crash as a marsh rabbit scrambles through ashy blackness, racing around destroyed brush like a wasp gone madder. The ring's low height and shiny blackness suggest an experimental apparatus, but also evoke old-style fireplace fenders or circular railings in museums. The only redemption to the inky blackness was her lone lamp. The white kids want to experience blackness, dramatic and direct. The figure is seen in raking light against an impenetrable blackness. My eyelids didn't want to stay open, and I shluffed the note off to my bedside table and quickly turned off my light, plunging my room into blackness. Show More Sentences Bessire elucidates the role of both blackness and whiteness in that oeuvre, and in this framework, race is depicted not as people but as a system of categorization. A thread of anxiety started its twist into my stomach as the bus wound ever onwards into the dense blackness of night. When you are firing out at night, the red tracers go out into the blackness as if you were drawing with a light pen. The conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us. In black-ish, Dre reacts by trying to reaffirm his blackness within his home. He gave one pull, and the entire floor was blanketed in utter blackness. What's with this sooty blackness that covers my fruit at harvest? We compare the radiant blues and greens of our fragile planet to the blackness of the cosmos, and recognize the infinite preciousness of our lonely home. In the middle of the blackness, there was a tiny pinpoint of light. Through the blackness, the sky glues to the trembling poplars. They are read as being about blackness, as both color and mental state, or even as metaphysics. A small, wobbly voice cut through the comforting blackness and oblivion, just audible above the constant hiss of the waves breaking on the slimy, moss-covered stone outside. The gold writing of the pictograph contrasted the blackness of the sword. Against a sky of blackness, where pride is abundant and magnanimity scarce, that little man, that mediocre personage, shines with uncommon refulgence. The blackness of outerspace comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of black. From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision. It must be an orgasmic experience to be an astronaut and see the Earth as a little, colourful marble surrounded by blackness. Blackness and chastity are common nouns, even if blackness and chastity are considered unique abstract entities. The qulis guided us by instinct, stumbling on through alternating blackness and evilly glaring light. In some Charles appeared, in shorts and sola topi, flanked by robed, shock-headed men of intense blackness. Show More Sentences If the illumination is steadily increased from sub-liminal to super-liminal values, the deeply saturated colour will come out from the blackness. I was eight years older than Arthur, and our affair had started as a crazy fling with all the beauty for me of his youngness and blackness. She has privileged the wrong kind of sight, a vision that fails to see into blackness and thus fails to see through language. She thought about the color black, the nature of blackness, and the in-betweeny shades therein. That sky was not purple, nor blue, but nielle, blackness beyond black, with stars that jabbed like knives of light. Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle's depths. It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use. Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. Examining whiteness teaches us that the myths and stereotypes of whiteness go hand in hand with the myths and stereotypes of blackness, Asianness, or any other ethnicity. Yes, the bambosh dance is still danced until the dancers, wildly drunk on clairine vanish into the surrounding blackness to capture the partner of their choice. A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink. Examples from Classical Literature May not the blackness and the forked tail of the drongo cuckoo have arisen in the same way as they arose in the king-crow? It arose, at length, as from the dead, overshadowing her with all the blackness of her crime. The patio, in its blackness, was like the rectangular mouth of a bottomless pit. Then he saw, pale and candescent in the blackness, three or four great lilies, the authors of that perfume. She liked the soft blackness of the cindery soil that covered the most sheltered portions of the worn-out dock. White clouds rising in the east gather into cumuli, with an increasing blackness along their lower portions. Her swallow of anything became large spoonfuls of rich blackness and the tenderness of savorous flesh. Into the screening shadow of the giant trees, and the sheltering blackness. The blackness of the assemblage was as if you poured ink into water and made it dense. At every moment this blackness was brightened by puffs of electric blue, extraordinarily vivid, as shells burst in the air. Then as the blackness lifts, in the dim light of the false dawn filtering through the window of the mountain hut. With fluctuant blackness against immutable blackness great sweeping pine trees swished weirdly into the horizon. Then stillness, and solidity, and the blackness of the Pit outside the Med Ship. Justus Miles was the first to come to, and he found himself in Stygian blackness. He stood on the bridge overwhelmed by the despair whose Tartarean blackness only twenty can experience. This incredible blackness made a lightproof wall for the recessed hollow at the foot of the cliff. From the river itself the blackness, the squalor, the apparent dilapidation, of these tyneside towns are not so conspicuous. Who henceforth would receive her save those, unconformed and unconformable, sentenced to sin in this realm of blackness? His Lordship had no time to slam the windows up, before the coach lay wallowing in a bog of nighty blackness. They were round and fixed, pools of bottomless blackness, staring at me through two varas of clear, swaying water. Show More Sentences Through the blackness that welled and burst in his brain, one thought held. A dawdling August Perseid scratched a thin mark of light across the blackness. Then it was gone as swiftly as it had come, leaving a pitchy blackness behind it. The pliers struck the blackness and rebounded as if they had hit a rubber wall. Ramshackle mine-buildings of prefabricated plastic straggled out from the shrouding blackness under a pinnacled ridge. The pine-trees standing in inky blackness the rushing water, white with foam-above, the rifted thunder-clouds. And next, after the blackness, I open my eyes in the early dawn to see a Japanese woman, solicitously anxious, bending over me. Beyond the light of the fire everything was swallowed up in the blackness of darkness. The feeble ray of the flashlight was lost in the blackness below. Never before had all glint of hope been lost in rayless blackness. Then the match burned down, and stung my fingers, and fell, a wriggling red spot in the blackness. Thuvia of Ptarth, gazing toward the east, saw the blacker blot against the blackness of the trees as the craft topped the buttressed garden wall. Blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. The next instant the blackness of the night was split by a sizzling flame. The face is camouflaged in shades of blackness, enough white showing to suggest minstrelsy, or performance. Streaks of red fire played against the blackness of his eyelids. All was blackness and ruin for many miles between this point and Houston. I tell you, he's a regular hearse for blackness and sobriety, and will drive you like a funeral, if you want. In the sunset, when all the lower world is palled in gloom, it points toward heaven out of the pervading blackness like a finger of fire. The blackness of the wood gave place to the starlit darkness of the night. Show More Sentences North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Facing the chill blackness without the window, she tried to drowse off. All without and within the man was eddying, swirling blackness. At last, one by one, swiftly, one after the other, the white peaks of the distant hills vanished into blackness. The blackness of the jungle night was in strange contrast to the light they had just left. He was very tall, with a dark, Spanish complexion, fine, expressive black eyes, and close-curling hair, also of a glossy blackness. How mysterious, how infinitely tender it sounded in that awful blackness! It leaps monstrously across the blackness, alights on the precise tip of our nose, pirouettes there an instant, and swings off. It was not the sort of night we know on earth, but a Stygian blackness. Outside a sky of inky blackness overhung the white expanse of snow. In another instant she was gone, and the dim light which had filled the cell faded into Cimmerian blackness. Thomas writes of blackness and with blackness, but it does not circumscribe him. Vanished into the swoon whose blackness encompassed and hid me. One after the other, like spurred steeds, the cars leaped into the blackness, took the curve of the driveway, and were gone. The tree-tops rose against the luminous blue sky in inky silhouette, and all below that outline melted into one formless blackness. Clark joined in the argument from the blackness under the locust tree. Where it had been was only blackness and the dying glow of molten rock. And still there was no ray, nothing but unrelieved blackness. A figure had sprung suddenly from the blackness of the trees. The lightning, darting and flashing through the blackness, showed wildly waving branches, whipping streamers and bending trunks. Show More Sentences As the last rays of daylight dwindled and disappeared, absolute blackness settled down on Treasure Island. Up and up they climbed through the blackness, blind and buffeted. The lawn stretched before her like water of an unimagined blackness. At first the solid blackness seemed to lay a weight on their foreheads. In the soft light the distant hills became melted, and the shadows in the valleys and gorges of velvety blackness. Heart thumping raggedly, shivering in the frosty air, she rubbed away condensation and peered into the deeper blackness outside. While they uncovered the sheaves he stood apathetic beside his portable repository of force, round whose hot blackness the morning air quivered. But, in truth, Sir Harry's blackness was still the result of vacillation. Around it and beyond was only the blackness and silence of vacuity. For a minute perhaps I stared aghast at this blackness that was creeping over the day, and then I realized that an eclipse was beginning. A searchlight bored a hole in the blackness, to bathe him in cold light. Pages of blackness lit only by tiny white twinkling's emphasize this loss poignantly, while Mae and her dog look out the somberly lit window, bereft. It was the most horrible experience of all my life and that my mind did not give way to the terrors of that inky blackness has been a wonder to me ever since. The high cap no longer invested his brows, which were only shaded by short and thick curled hair of a raven blackness, corresponding to his unusually swart complexion. From the lips of the ape-man came a weird, uncanny sound, and in answer to it there leaped from the blackness of the hut's farthermost corner a bolt of fur-clad death. They stir up the soul from its depths, and rouse, as with trumpet call, courage, energy, and enthusiasm, where before was only the blackness of despair. He would have liked to stand there with her all night in the blackness. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of blackness? Words that rhyme with blackness What is the plural of blackness? What is the adverb for blackness? What is the adjective for blackness? What is the noun for blackness? Translations for blackness Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Blackmore black mood black-market black market Blackman blackmails blackout black out black-out blackouts Blackouts Black Panther 9-letter Words Starting With b bl bla blac black blackn blackne blacknes