Example Sentences

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Blackened with a pitchlike substance, their paleo-Hebrew script nearly illegible, they contained what Shapira claimed was the “original” Book of Deuteronomy, perhaps even Moses’ own copy.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021

Richard Gill knew it as the dark brown, pitchlike poison brewed by the Amazon Indians, who use it to tip the darts of their blowguns.

From Time Magazine Archive

In pitchlike darkness we drove along at our highest speed—seeing lights many times, but always avoiding the ships that bore them.

From Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain by Holmes, Prescott

Its glossy, pitchlike surface, on the end that had been exposed from the wall, was all worn and polished smooth by innumerable caresses from Moslem hands and lips.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan

It was more bewilderment, as the men seemingly so merry drew near, invisible through the pitchlike darkness.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne