Blackness Sentence Examples

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  • Blackness crept into her vision.

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  • He drained her life until she was near blackness before he flung his head back with a contented sigh.

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  • The light flashed away, leaving her in blackness studded with dim bulbs.

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  • In one direction the tabby shows a tendency to melanism which culminates in complete blackness, while in the other direction there is an equally marked tendency to albinism; grey cats, which may be regarded as tabbies whose stri p es have disappeared, forming the connecting link between the tabby and the white cat.

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  • She rubbed her head and glared at him, watching as he followed his father in the direction where both sky and sea darkened into blackness.

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  • Below, he could see a displaced boulder and disturbed earth before the slope dropped off at an impossible angle into utter blackness.

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  • There was only open blackness.

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  • At last he heard a noise off to his right, a sigh or a moan in the blackness.

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  • Instantly, her world fell into blackness.

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  • Rusty hinges were still visible in the wood but no door barred the entrance nor could anything be seen beyond but utter blackness.

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  • The darkness immediately engulfed them and they paused a dozen baby steps into the tunnel to allow their eyes to become accustomed to the blackness.

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  • She was slung over someone's shoulder, stuck between awareness and blackness.

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  • On permeable soils, especially those of the terrace lands along the valleys, the soluble salts commonly known as alkali were gradually leached out and carried by the percolating waters towards the lower lands, where, reaching the surface, the alkali was left as a glistening crust or as pools of inky blackness.

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  • We slipped through the small hatchway into total blackness.

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  • He saw a dim twilight above this and ascended out of the blackness into a street of moving Ways again.

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  • Flint stayed at the mine overnight, making her way to the closest entrance and staring into the blackness.

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  • Having an African American father and Caucasian mother, Halle recognized racial dynamics at an early age, once stating that "Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community.

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  • The night was moonless and the dark covered them like a cloak the deeper they descended into the blackness of the gorge.

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  • She gasped and dropped to her knees, unable to see in the inky blackness around her.

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  • She recognized the inky blackness swimming in his green eyes and felt her gut twist.

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  • The first has been explained as referring to the gloom of her abode, or the blackness of the withered corn.

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  • If the angle subtended by the components of a double line be twice that subtended by the wave-length at a distance equal to the horizontal aperture, the central bands are just clear of one another, and there is a line of absolute blackness in the middle of the combined images.

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  • The aperture and the number of bands being both fixed, the condition of blackness determines the angular magnitude of a band and of the spectrum.

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  • Blackness, on the coast farther east, was the seaport of Linlithgow till the rise of Bo'ness, but its small export trade now mainly consists of coal, bricks, tiles and lime.

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  • If the view that the sole is protected by the blackness of the pectoral fin resembling the blackness of the dorsal fin of the weever, be correct, these fishes furnish an instance of Batesian mimicry.

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  • The ence of the Church thus escaped the unpopularity of this decadent empire, and during the 5th century she provided a refuge for all those who, wishing to preserve the Roman unity, were terrified by the blackness of the horizon.

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  • Thus he maintained that there must be blackness as well as whiteness in snow; how otherwise could it be turned into dark water?

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  • Blackness pushed the pain away.

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