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Meanings of pitchy in English
Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal.
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Usage of pitchy in English
1
On one side, glaring dazzling light; on the other, cavernous pitchy darkness.
2
The staircase was a winding one and led down into pitchy darkness.
3
Above that round yellow ray, faces were unrecognizable in the pitchy blackness.
4
The night was quite dark, but not what is called pitchy dark.
5
A raw wind, driving snow, pitchy darkness, slush and everything objectionable underfoot.
6
The pitchy darkness closed in ahead, hiding everything, even the peaks and ridges.
7
On the ledge above the shop you see another pitchy building.
8
Night had now fallen and pitchy darkness had taken possession of the forest.
9
No sound: the stairs stretched up before her into pitchy darkness.
10
It is mid-day but it is pitchy dark, and it is not warm.
11
The body is slightly yellowish, and variously streaked and banded with pitchy black.
12
If our lanterns went out, we should be in pitchy darkness.
13
Nor did the pitchy darkness yield a jot to his now accustomed eyes.
14
It was pitchy dark, with a most villainous storm of rain and wind.
15
He hunted up two pitchy sticks and set them both alight.
16
Even in the pitchy gloom I could feel that Tom's step was buoyant.
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