Example sentences for: blackness

How can you use “blackness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The training is what's crucial, not the blackness.

  • Years ago, before blackness became really marketable, it used to be said that the publishing industry would admit only one black writer at a time.

  • Emboldened by this example, white liberal playwright Arthur Miller suggested on the Times op-ed page that Clinton's "blackness" resides in the fact he came from "a broken home" with "an alcoholic mother."

  • Explaining what she meant by "blackness," Morrison listed single motherhood, poverty, saxophone playing, and an uncontrollable desire to eat at McDonald's.

  • Cynics cite the opportune timing of coloreds' rediscovered blackness now that the black-majority government has instituted policies helping those who faired worst under apartheid.


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