The sky was completely black by the time we arrived at our hotel.

He's black by the way for those who don't know.

He was going to be black and blue by the time they let him out of here.

His life had been spent on that river, white in morning, yellow at noon, black by supper.

For the room was black again by that time.

What world was left outside slowly dissolved to black by eight-thirty.

The church was never formally segregated but had become mostly black by 1892.

The city became heavily black and impoverished by the 1980s.

The neighborhood became integrated in the 1960s and was predominantly Black by 1970.

The body fell, spouting blood that seemed black by the light of the moon.