An AZ statement read: “While everyone hoped for a historic European match, it turned into a pitch-black evening due to the events occurring at the referee’s final whistle.

Source: https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/uk-sports/2023/05/19/az-alkmaar-condemn-pitch-black-evening-after-violence-mars-hammers-clash/

In it, eight celebrities including Paul Gascoigne, Scarlett Moffatt and Chris Eubank will enter “a pitch-black reality space for eight days” to face their primal fears.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/09/goodbye-darkness-my-old-friend

It focuses on Cypriot miners as they re-emerge with their pitch-black faces, sweat and blood into the light.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/03/19/coming-up-at-rialto/

She is a climber and extreme athlete and is used to doing crazy, dangerous things and got it into her head that she’d like to live totally alone in a pitch-black cave deep in the bowels of the Spanish earth for, say, a year or two.

Source: https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/opinion/hays-daze-how-about-some-extreme-spelunking/

This image from our nearly pitch-black backyard (you can't actually see anything in real life) almost looks like it was shot during the daytime.

Source: https://mashable.com/review/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-5-review