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 rooms are pitch-black save for a small hole in the ceiling, two stories above, that allows in a sliver of light.
  — David Culver, CNN, 6 Nov. 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
• There was really only one true answer: lots and lots of pitch-black, butt-length hair.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 21 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Laced with pitch-black humor and ending on a thrilling cliffhanger, Sweetpea is one of the most surprisingly great shows of 2024.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Such reminders that monstrosity is in the eye of the beholder could easily feel trite or forced, but Gunn capably balances them with a pitch-black sense of humor.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025