How to Use pitch-black in a Sentence

pitch-black

adjective
  • The team is out for the third night in a row, walking the pitch-black beach.
    Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The sky is pitch-black and the hum of insects the only sound in the cloud forest.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2023
  • On a pitch-black evening, on the anniversary of Ye’s, (f.k.a.
    Mark Braboy, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Ahead of them, the race’s 55-mile course curled into the still pitch-black winter day.
    Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2023
  • In the fourth and final season of the pitch-black show business satire, Hader was at the elm of each of the eight episodes.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
  • The pitch-black night sky lit up in fiery hues of crimson and tangerine.
    Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But the footage was obscured by heavy snowfall and flashing lights of the police cars against the pitch-black night sky.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 28 May 2024
  • The pitch-black ending must have shocked audiences in 1948.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
  • The video cuts to pitch-black and everything goes quiet — except for the sound of his breathing.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The first volume features a beige color scheme, the second volume a pitch-black one, and the third has a dark blue hue.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Headlights are easy to see for someone walking down a pitch-black street.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The group of about 20 cars struggled to drive through unpaved roads in near pitch-black conditions.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 26 July 2024
  • Michelle also designed the underside of the talons, painting them with a pitch-black hue.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The installation required a pitch-black screening room and the film began with a six-minute scene of the descent down the shaft.
    Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • Sasha tried to see his surroundings through the pitch-black southern darkness.
    Vladimir Sorokin, Harper's Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • One model's straight, pitch-black hair was swept back into a ponytail to highlight the white strands along her hairline.
    Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 14 Feb. 2024
  • In the pitch-black afternoon, when only the orange of the embers pierced through the thick plumes of smoke, Hingano stopped shivering for a moment.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • On top of a pitch-black base, Bachik added the individual blooms in white, blue, yellow, and purple hues.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The result is a script that melds family-friendly goofiness with the pitch-black comedy that White is known for.
    Chris Stanton, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2023
  • For the event, the stadium was pitch-black except for the replica home, which was burning and surrounded by water.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Behind him is a frightening future image of the Earth as seen from space: fire-red continents and pitch-black oceans.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
  • This formula has a pitch-black tint to instantly make lashes look fuller and more defined.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Crew members used flashlights to search for the missing man in the pitch-black water before spotting and rescuing him.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Two homes in Santa Monica — one pink and purple, the other pitch-black — have gone viral due to their clashing styles.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2023
  • At the Titanic’s depth, the ocean is pitch-black and relatively poor in nutrients, so there’s not a whole lot of life or much else to see in most regions, Jaffe says.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • Whitby jet is renowned for being pitch-black in color and tough in temperament.
    Emili Vesilind, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
  • As someone with pitch-black, thick body hair that seems to regrow within hours of shaving, I’ve always been tempted to bite the bullet and try laser hair removal.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 25 July 2024
  • The slides range from an easygoing race for toddlers on the four-lane Downhill Doggers to a harrowing journey in the dark on the mostly pitch-black Point Panic.
    Catherine Garcia, theweek, 16 July 2024
  • Lightning flashed around her as she was tossed about inside the enormous, pitch-black cumulonimbus cloud that had swallowed her.
    Ewa Wiśnierska, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
  • This pitch-black ending shows that Jünger offers more to the modern reader than perverse echoes of German history.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023

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