NOUN
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total absence of light
they fumbled around in total darkness
in the black of night
How To Use lightlessness In A Sentence
- But despite kangaroos’ ungracefulness and clumsiness, and despite emus flightlessness and feistiness, both have been elevated to the position of Australia's national animal and bird, respectively.
- The man from the lightlessness in the backseat: Your middle name bled out and froze in the fibers of the carseat or the floor. THE BASTARDS ARE TRYING TO KEEP THE WORLD OF AIR INSIDE YOUR LUNGS SEPARATE FROM THE AIR OUTSIDE YOUR LUNGS
- But the ratite lineage in general, with its heritage of gigantism and flightlessness, is relictual on Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand and was until recently on Madagascar, having held out in those places while long ago disappearing from the mainlands. The Song of The Dodo
- Irrespective of the pattern of colonization, flightlessness probably evolved separately in the subantarctic teals.
- Though experts at manoeuvrable gliding, they might undergo periods of occasional flightlessness when, in Spring, they gorge on buds and new leaves. That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
- Irrespective of the pattern of colonization, flightlessness probably evolved separately in the subantarctic teals.