pitch-black
extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
Origin of pitch-black
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How to use pitch-black in a sentence
As I drove home that night around eight, Long Island Sound was pitch-black, apart from the glimmering reflection of light poles.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead | Sandeep Jauhar | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSet against an otherwise pitch-black screen, she appears to be looking the audience directly in the eye.
One of the most intriguing works is a sculptural installation set within an almost pitch black room.
Walking through the spiral hallway into the almost pitch black, circular room, the senses become immediately disoriented.
Seamen must constantly move between the pitch black of below decks and the bright sunshine above.
Here a pitch black tunnel opened before them into the lower regions, and—it must be confessed—they hesitated.
The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories | Algernon BlackwoodFrom another point in the pitch-black glen rose the wailing, terrible cry of a woman in agony.
The Man of the Forest | Zane GreyThe old man stumbled into the pitch-black, stifling passage and sat down on the lowest step to rest.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor AtkinsonIt is delirium-of-bliss to feel oneself living though shadows be pitch-black.
I, Mary MacLane | Mary MacLaneThere was a gate in the pitch-black paling, and a bell-handle—discovered with great difficulty.
The Law and the Lady | Wilkie Collins
British Dictionary definitions for pitch-black
extremely dark; unlit: the room was pitch-black
of a deep black colour
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