Etymology
Origin of blackness
Example Sentences
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“Through here,” I said, pointing into the blackness of the trees.
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He had found that this was better OOO than facing the sighing blackness ahead.
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You slither out onto its snuggly warm blackness, and pretty soon you get so cozy and content lying there that you fall asleep, stretched out and snoring, even.
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For white authors and readers, Morrison argued, blackness has been more metaphoric than real, a signifier of certain behavioral expectations.
The cloud—the lightning, the blackness—was coming faster and faster.
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