How to use blackness in a sentence

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• Claiming blackness allows her to connect her experience to other Afro-Latinas and have experiences of difference acknowledged.2015, Rachel Afi Quinn, “This Bridge Called the Internet: Black Lesbian Feminist Activism in Santo Domingo”, in Cheryl R. Rodriguez…. From the entry Afro-Latina
• The interstellar craft sped through the vast blackness of deep space at incredible speed.2009, Wayne Berry, Is This the Fun Part?: An Anthology, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 266. From the entry superplasma
• She thought about the color black, the nature of blackness, and the in-betweeny shades therein.2005, Carole Cadwalladr, The Family Tree, Dutton, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry in-betweeny
• There was such blackness ahead, he opted for the childish, ostrichy trick of pretending it wasn’t there.2000, Tibor Fischer, I Like Being Killed: Stories, Henry Holt and Company, published 2015, →ISBN. From the entry ostrichy
• In some Charles appeared, in shorts and sola topi, flanked by robed, shock-headed men of intense blackness.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry sola topi
• The qulis guided us by instinct, stumbling on through alternating blackness and evilly glaring light.1961, Henry Gibbs, The Hills of India. From the entry quli
• The blackness didn't notice so much when she was born; but it's unmistakeable now.1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 9. From the entry notice
• Tarzan slept until midnight, then he arose and crept into the Cimmerian blackness of the forest.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 140. From the entry cimmerian
• Even the light only seemed to emphasize the blackness of the shadows.1903, Bram Stoker, chapter 5, in The Jewel of Seven Stars. From the entry sentience
• I stared into my mind for some image to clue me what to say but I saw only blackness there.2014, John Macgregor, The Antibiography of Ian Mcnulty. From the entry clue
• This preoccupation, it appears, was to challenge official constructions of blackness and to create oppositional or counterimaginations of black identity.2012, L. Modisane, South Africa's Renegade Reels, page 33. From the entry counterimagination
• That sky was not purple, nor blue, but nielle, blackness beyond black, with stars that jabbed like knives of light.1999, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Gravity Dreams, page 5. From the entry nielle
• There's a zizzy feeling, prickles in my fingers and toes and a sudden blackness with whorls of light.1998, Myra Schneider, John Killick, Writing for self-discovery. From the entry zizzy
• I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC. From the entry Leonid
• Plunge into the dust-moted rough blackness of his hair, smooth back downward over the deep-brown nape of his neck.1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry Sundown. From the entry palp
• Hand-in-hand with Ben he stepped out into the blackness.1924, Anne Carroll Moore, chapter XIII, in Nicholas, A Manhattan Christmas Story, page 187. From the entry hand-in-hand
• If the illumination is steadily increased from sub-liminal to super-liminal values, the deeply saturated colour will come out from the blackness.1924, James P. C. Southall (translator), Hermann von Helmholtz (author), Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics Volume 1 (1962 Dover…. From the entry superliminal
• It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in…. From the entry mixed-race
• Night fell especially dark and cold for August, inky blackness tendrilling in, octopussing even the street lamps, now dim with vague form.1995, Donald A. Weatherby, The Star-Spangled Specter, page 77. From the entry octopus
• It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 93. From the entry auguste
• From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, chapter 5, in John Nathan, transl., A Personal Matter, New York: Grove Press, page 84. From the entry blinder
• Once he looked at the vault above, but the entire concameration was completely and desolately empty of all save blackness and that westward-waning moon.1927, Donald Wandrei, “A Fragment of a Dream”, in The Recluse, Athol, Mass.: W. Paul Cook, page twenty. From the entry concameration
• The falukah plunged over a waterfall and was almost submerged, was caught again in a maelstrom and went twirling on in the blackness.1914 November 14, Arthur Train, [Robert Williams Wood], “The Man Who Rocked the Earth”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 187, number…. From the entry maelstrom
• It was believed that the legibility of a new style could be largely augmented by giving to it greater blackness of face.1901, De Vinne, et al., The Practice of Typography […]. From the entry fatface
• When his head nodded, the fire blazed in the blackness of his dreams and sent suncolored streaks racing back and forth between his mind and soul.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 158. From the entry suncolored
• The man, meanwhile, measures his full blackness against the night sky in a colorific conundrum that involves the painterly exploration of the darkest shades of the spectrum.2018 October 6, Waldemar Januszczak, “Art review: Kerry James Marshall, David Zwirner; Mantegna and Bellini, National Gallery”, in The Times. From the entry colorific
• Admittedly, I discussed race more than typical History of Christianity survey courses, but my discussion of race referred to early-modern heresies, antisemitism, and antimuslim campaigns not modern blackness.2017, David Evans, Tobin Miller Shearer, “A Principled Pedagogy for Religious Educators”, in Religious Education, volume 112, number 1…. From the entry antimuslim
• "It simultaneously refers to horror movies, to the Misfits and, by extension, all punk rock, and to a generalized culture of blackness and spookiness and the larger, mall-Goth culture."2006 July 27, David Colman, “The heyday of the dead”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry mallgoth
• Yes, the bambosh dance is still danced until the dancers, wildly drunk on clairine vanish into the surrounding blackness to capture the partner of their choice.2001, Charles H. Baker Jr., Knife, Fork and Spoon: Eating Around the World, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry bambosh
• I was eight years older than Arthur, and our affair had started as a crazy fling with all the beauty for me of his youngness and blackness.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry youngness
• A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.1937, Henry Kuttner, The Salem Horror. From the entry pseudopod
• Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle's depths.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as…. From the entry here and there
• The superbly designed hills already were taking on the blackness of coming night, several glaring in the ringlight as usual, those towards the horizon fading off into a jet obscurity.2016, Donald Suddaby, Prisoners of Saturn, →ISBN. From the entry ringlight

Meaning of blackness

1. noun The state or quality of being black in colour.
2. noun Any space that such colour pervades.
3. noun Darkness, gloominess; depression.

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Questions about blackness in a sentence

How do you use blackness in a sentence?

Blackness is used as a noun. For example: “The blackness of outer space comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of light.”

What is a short sentence with blackness?

“I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens.”

What does blackness mean?

Blackness means the state or quality of being black in colour.