5 sentences with 'blackness'
Example sentences and phrases with the word blackness and other words derived from it.
• « Thom paddled on with all his might, ignoring the pain in his arms and back, but in that impenetrable blackness every minute felt like an eternity. »
• « The ancient Greeks' age-old terror of the dark drove their imagination; to counteract this, especially at sea, where on moonless nights the horizon was a longing lost in the blackness of the night, lighthouses were built. »
• « The first of these is Neptune, something of an enigma to astronomers, difficult to make out with the naked eye from Earth, almost lost in the blackness of space, barely illuminated by the Sun, which is almost four and a half billion kilometres away. »
• « Everywhere in the United States, blackness had come to be associated with slavery, the lowest rung on the social ladder. Both whites and those of African descent tended to demarcate different degrees of skin colour clarity in a social hierarchy. »
• « In the slave-owning South, different names described the distance of blackness or whiteness: mulattoes (those with one black and one white parent), quadroons (those with a black grandparent) and octorons (those with a black great-grandparent). »