ADJECTIVE
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extremely dark
it was pitch-dark in the cellar
a black moonless night
through the pitch-black woods
How To Use pitch-dark In A Sentence
- Despite the bunching up of students in large droves of 30s, and the glaring psychedelic light sequences that alternated with a lot of pitch-dark moments, they did a good job.
- There is desultory chitchat on the verandah as evening slides into pitch-dark night.
- It would describe Jesus' birth in a pitch-dark cave, amid piles of oxen scat and filthy hay and poor travelers elbowing into the Holy Family's space, Joseph worn out from a frantic search for an inn, Mary all alone as her water breaks and her pain hits excruciating levels. John Backman: A Jesus For The Great Recession (And Other Dark Times)
- I generally try to avoid pitch-dark, infernally hot enclosures, but now that Brown is my new best friend I find his preamble so avuncular and sweet that I almost consider it.
- The chamber was pitch-dark; he could guess that the fungi had given up the last of their stored sunlight some time before. A TIME OF WAR
- His trips there and back were spent praying for protection, praying he'd make it there safely and back in the pitch-dark night.
- It was a pitch-dark room the size of an average bedroom with a mattress on the floor, no potty, no water, dark - very dark.
- The room was pitch-dark, but Michael felt mattresses and piles of clothes under his feet. The Omega Theory
- It's pitch-dark and I'm bone-tired… but the human can't go to sleep until he takes cares of the animals.
- We wound our way along pitch-dark corridors and up staircases, as animatronic models of Dracula reared up at us out of coffins without warning and a masked axeman from the horror movie Scream brandished his axe at us.