How to use "blackness" in a sentence

Suddenly the sky was shattered by lightning, then by a hard clap of thunder, and the night imploded into a deeper darkness, into infinite and perfect blackness.

They continued to squint at the inky blackness, searching for movement.

I remember how I sat there in the blackness, not suspecting the meaning of the tiny light I had seen and all the trouble that it would cause me

You can imagine, too, how they watched as the blackness rose into the sky