Darkling

//ˈdɑː(ɹ)klɪŋ//

Synonyms for "darkling" (24 found)

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Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

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Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.

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So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.

Source: wiktionary

As the wakeful bird sings darkling.

Source: wiktionary

I had a dream, which was not all a dream. / The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars / Did wander darkling in the eternal space, / Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth / Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;

Source: wiktionary

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