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"Darken" in a Sentence (35 examples)
The sky suddenly began to darken.
Don't you ever darken my door again!
You should darken the colours a little.
The jealousy is starting to darken Tom's mind.
The sky started to darken.
‘Sarah,’ says I as I went in, ‘this man Fairbairn is never to darken my door again.’ ‘Why not?’ says she. ‘Because I order it.’
You ought to darken the colours a bit.
When the vast Central plains of the United States darken with thunderhead clouds, and rain and hailstones begin to pelt the ground, everyone and everything takes cover, except the pilots of the armor-plated T-28 Storm Penetrator airplane.
When the Persians said they would fire so many arrows that they would darken the sky, Leonidas, King of Sparta, is reported to have replied, "Better, for then we will fight in the shade."
Dust storms are quite common across the dry, windy landscapes of Central Asia. Still, it is unusual for dust to darken the skies of a major city, as one recent storm did in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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[…] they [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened […]
So spake the Sovran voice, and Clouds began To darken all the Hill […]
Almos is a hydrogen-helium gas giant with traces of sodium darkening its atmosphere.
[…] the owl and the bat flew round the darkening trees:
[…] leaning at her window she watched the end of that eventful day darken over the ranges.
Well, I must go in now; and you too: it darkens.
Then they passed out from the Forum, forced their way through the crowded streets, and soon were through the Porta Ratumena, outside the walls, and struck out across the Campus Martius, upon the Via Flaminia. It was rapidly darkening.
From babyhood until fourteen, to play in a garden in the evening when it is darkening is a legend.
It had been fine all morning, but it was darkening now, the weather was going to get worse.
He looked up. It was darkening here as well. Sky getting red, the edge of the quarry dark and jagged against it.
She puts on lipstick and darkens her eyebrows, which are now very scanty […]
The lovely hair had lost its rose-gold glimmer, and had darkened to rose-brown […]
With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth o’ the feast.
It was a pleasure seeing you again. I’m only sorry I had to darken the pleasure with my private problems.
1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, London: T. Cadell Jun[ior] and W. Davies, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 303, His countenance darkened while he spoke […]
Alice’s big eyes darkened with trouble.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see […]
1773, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell dated 5 July, 1773, in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume I, London: Charles Dilly, p. 424, When your letter came to me, I was so darkened by an inflammation in my eye, that I could not for some time read it.
Such clouds of nameless trouble cross All night below the darken’d eyes; With morning wakes the will, and cries, ‘Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.’
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
[…] such was his wisdome, as his Confidence did seldome darken his Fore-sight […]
His [Edmund Spenser’s] stile was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so darkened with old words and peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use, that Johnson boldly pronounces him to have written no language.
“Darken not counsel,” said Corund, “to me and my sons. Have I not these four years past been as a brother unto thee, and wilt thou still be secret toward us?”
I must not think there are Evils enow to darken all his goodness:
The Danube to the Severn gave The darken’d heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave.
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