How To Use Pitch-black In A Sentence
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I groped my way across the pitch-black stage.
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The headlamps' illumination was the first light this pitch-black place had known in decades, possibly centuries.
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Where we stayed there are no buses, no taxis, no trains, and the nearest pub is five miles away along unlighted, pitch-black roads.
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It was pitch-black at the bottom of the stairway, but then the rabbi flipped the light switch and David saw a large room with cinderblock walls.
The Omega Theory
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Half an hours cautious questioning decided each of us that the other was safe; and then for hours, while the train jolted slowly through the pitch-black night, sitting up in our bunks with bottles of beer handy, we damned the British Empiredamned it from the inside, intelligently and intimately.
The Road to Wigan Pier
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Oceanographers divide the ocean into five broad zones according to how far down sunlight penetrates: the epipelagic, or sunlit, zone: the top layer of the ocean where enough sunlight penetrates for plants to carry on photosynthesis. the mesopelagic, or twilight, zone: a dim zone where some light penetrates, but not enough for plants to grow. the bathypelagic, or midnight, zone: the deep ocean layer where no light penetrates. the abyssal zone: the pitch-black bottom layer of the ocean; the water here is almost freezing and its pressure is immense. the hadal zone: the waters found in the ocean's deepest trenches.
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We should exercise at least as much caution with those we'll be stuck with in a succession of pitch-black chambers over the subsequent 45 minutes.
Lacking Blind Faith
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The tears streamed down, dark as blood, reflected in the pitch-black canopy of sky.
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The attackers came after me and got slightly more than they bargained for in the pitch-black dark house.
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The pitch-black bark with coarse texture is well weathered and full of the verve of unyieldingness.
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He wore pitch-black pants and a black shirt with understated ruffles at the neck and sleeves.
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With nothing but a pitch-black, moonless night in front of me, my biggest concern was flying away from the water.
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We would assemble in the pitch-black luggage room in the dormitory basement, and all we could hear was the clatter of machine-gun fire, like rainfall on lotus leaves.
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Once the lights were dimmed, the view from the stage was pitch-black save for the pinpoints of candle flames flickering in the dark.
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The men advanced in the sweltering, pitch-black night, scanning the landscape with night-vision goggles and armed with semiautomatic rifles fitted with silencers.
Special Ops, Pig Patrol: Commando Wannabes Stalk Porky
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Dotted around the pitch-black stage, they appear to be sculpted masks on to which moving faces are projected.
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Jeffery Wagner for The Wall Street Journal Through the goggles, the landscape, including Mr. Coiner, seen here, appears bathed in green light despite the pitch-black night.
Wild Pig Hunting
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And a fine pallid specimen too, the kind that teenagers should tell each other in coarse whispers while huddled around a camp fire on a pitch-black night.
FINGERS • by Stef Hall
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through the pitch-black woods
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No one could see anything at night because of the pitch-black darkness.
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Though I've already got the heat and pitch-black auditorium to blame, I'll also go ahead and fault the contrast between the snappy, laugh-out-loud tone of My Man Godfrey and the slower, talkier, theatrical comedy of Twentieth Century, during which I decided to close my eyes, just for a moment, and listen to the dialogue at a point when not much was happening visually.
Christopher Campbell's The Moviegoer - Asleep at the Reel « FirstShowing.net
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It was pitch-black at the bottom of the stairway, but then the rabbi flipped the light switch and David saw a large room with cinderblock walls.
The Omega Theory
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He noted that for several years he'd had to eat "sarnies" caked in coal dust, while totally alone each day at the middle bend of a pitch-black colliery tunnel his job had been to watch for derailments at the bend.
A charity dinner with Jimmy Savile
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Randy was the ‘tall dark and handsome’ type with pitch-black hair and chocolate eyes.
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There are lashings of bloodthirsty violence in the film, but plenty of pitch-black humour too.
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The fog lay thick and cold over the countryside that morning, and inside the barracks it was pitch-black and silent, except for the deep, steady breathing of the gunners.
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He was tall, with long pitch-black hair in a ponytail and dark brown eyes.
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Twisting in the pitch-black water, he raised his hands and felt slippery limestone above him.
The Omega Theory
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Where we stayed there are no buses, no taxis, no trains, and the nearest pub is five miles away along unlighted, pitch-black roads.
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He cuts a striking figure with his stocky frame, beatific smile and pitch-black hair worn long and swept back.
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Every fifty feet or so it turned to the left or right, and because the tunnel was pitch-black there was no way to see the turns coming.
The Omega Theory
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AND, INDEED, THE Dark Ages did turn out to be extremely dark: coal-black and jet-black, pitch-black and ink-black.
Bubble in the Bathtub
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Again, I have difficulty separating personal experience from a purely civilian perspective; I have had to rely on a second (and third) magazine, and was able to accomplish that smoothly in pitch-black conditions.
This thing doesn't have a handguns option. I'm looking at getting a Beretta 92FS.
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I am not going into that pitch-black cave with all them creepy crawlers and who knows what else.
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The young man in question slowly emerged form the pitch-black shadows of the closet as eerily as a phantom.
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The night was pitch-black, and the only source of light was from the lightning bolts which flashed through the darkened sky every now and then.
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He wore pitch-black pants and a black shirt with understated ruffles at the neck and sleeves.
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Just the pitch-black sweep of moor on either side of the road.
SACRAMENT
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Davis felt a burst of mirth within him, for he knew the symbol well but could not comprehend how he could see black in a pitch-black environment.
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The result is an album of dark shades and surprising weight, psychedelic not like a petal-laced sunburst but like a pitch-black night in a small room with walls that seem to expand and contract with your heaving chest.
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The Musée d' Orsay has sent The Snake Charmer, my favourite Rousseau, in which a pitch-black silhouette of an Indian pipe-player, who is hung with snakes, tempts closer a pink approximation of a roseate spoonbill.
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He had dark skin and darker eyes, and his pitch-black hair was mopped up in a way that suggested this man cared not for outer appearances.
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Of the whole crowd, including Gay, the speaker in his blue shirt, with his head thrown back against a pitch-black bough of the cedar, and his face enkindled from the fire of his enthusiasm, seemed the one masculine and dominating intelligence.
The Miller of Old Church
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Dear tells you a secret: See you are attracted for the first time, the figure ...... with the sexy beautiful lip that pitch-black hair pledges bright eye is highlighted!
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It was simply beautiful, with its streaming trail behind it, against a pitch-black sky.
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A dilapidated cab bounced along a pitch-black dirt road and we could see in the silhouette, large structures shadowed around us.
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Decked in pitch-black garb, a flintlock pistol held tightly in each hand, Nathaniel watched as the dim curtain of midday crept over the autumn scarlet of the forest.
