How To Use Dark In A Sentence

The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room.
She also lent me a couple of Ben Elton books which were good, but not as good for relaxing as they have a whole dark seedy side.
It's not entirely accurate - the book is a bit darker than that, but there is a fair bit of lovable eccentricity to the characters.
With a little coo of happiness he began to toddle forwards into the darkness, still clutching his bottle. MY BABYSITTER BITES BACK

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These deals are large and complex, requiring a lot more than just a "consigliere" -- a term always used with "The Godfather" playing in the background -- sitting in a dark room plotting with a CEO. Robert Teitelman: Svengalis, Bankers and the Role of Intermediaries
He was clean-shaven, in his early 30s and wearing a dark blue t-shirt.
The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
Beyond the stand of trees, well away from the road, the hiking trail became dark.
I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
But, outside the darker imaginings of the internet, it is hard to find such a person. Times, Sunday Times
The landscape was colored mainly in dark ocher, with occasional areas in malachite green.
They also have a dark side to them, which is somewhat refined, and makes us want to worship them. Times, Sunday Times
The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness). Jezebel
The little dark-brown, doughnut-shaped fritters tasted a whole lot like Indian pakoras, and indeed came with a dish of raita for dipping.
Refreshed and regowned, again in dark colors unrelieved by any bright embroidery, Aene paced nervously along a subtly lit path towards the Castrea residence.
Every jag, every bump on the wall revealed a zone of darkness that was worth to explore, but every time, in the shadows, there was just the sides of the cave, continuing.
The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
Rising up off a stone bench that stood in a shadowy area out of the torchlight was a dark, robed figure. Dragons of Winter Night
In an effort to take some of the beguilement out of her young eyes, I make light of your dark and somber task.
Around me the room was pleasantly dark, rolling in drunken contentedness.
Early screenings suggested as much, or suggested trouble at least, as preview audiences found the film too dark and violent, all in all too un-Leo.
As she got up and moved to support him, she noticed some strange dark stains on his left shoulder, which had been hidden under the pelisse before.
What is the etiquette when the eyes in question are big, and brown, and fringed with generous dark lashes?
Marya shook her head, her neatly bobbed dark hair brushing against high cheekbones.
Perhaps these dark thoughts are why he can be restless at night. Times, Sunday Times
Christ's central idea was that a truly Christly life is a richer and more abundant life than what "those who are in darkness" are experiencing. Rob Asghar: How Gandhi-Hating Kills Christianity
The cap or diaphragm had been developed in the 1880's but its availability had been very much limited as people were kept in the dark as to its very existence.
In the darkened room behind this diorama, a wall-sized video projection showed a seascape of lapping waves.
Countless millions here and abroad will be hoping the Royal romance brings joy in dark economic times. The Sun
There were dozens of glow-in-the-dark stars throbbing there, throwing their unnatural green light down to her.
Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
What you want to do is minimise dark circles and brighten the eye area. Times, Sunday Times
The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.
J.C. nodded and I followed him down into the dark dankness of Zacharis' unfinished basement. The Dog Catcher
The car, a dark four-door saloon, drove off, leaving him behind.
It still whispered about, prowling in the back of his consciousness, murmuring darkly even though his body was slack with well-satisfied relief. Captured by Moonlight
His dark eyes stared back, full of rawness, honesty and uncompromising sincerity.
And when he knelt he found her squatting, in the far corner underneath, and in the slatted dark, saw only her eyes, wide and white. Gabbie Zombie
Somewhere in the darkest, dingiest corner of hell, Andrew Wilson is laughing," Beuke told jurors. Jon Burge Trial: Jury Begins Deliberations
A split from his long-time girlfriend shortly after only served to drive him further into the darkness. Times, Sunday Times
‘Maria Maria Maria’ is simply gorgeous - a dark, reverb-soaked slab of despondency with a lyrical combination of absurdism and sincerity that could only have come from Merritt.
The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks.
In the case of darker parts of the internet, the algorithms produce a destructive positive feedback effect. Times, Sunday Times
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
He slid those dark eyes toward her, full of winsome appeal.
They didn't reach the border until after dark.
His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow.
The look should be tough, not twinkly, so apply dark colours in a slapdash way. Times, Sunday Times
The camera has a 32mm glass lens, and its automatic shutter allows you to take photos in near-darkness without a flash.
I just didn't understand that the ricochet is the second part you can't hide what you intend, it glows in the dark once you start the path of revenge there's no way to stop the more I try to hurt you the more it hurts me strange, it seems like a character mutation though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down Killing the Buddha
The shed was a dark, gaping hole atop the watchtower, a screaming mouth. MINUTES TO BURN
The men, wearing ski masks and dark clothing, were seen running off down Water Lane.
Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies.
They are able to sense very minute vibrations in the ground, and feel their way through total darkness with their paws and whiskers.
The circle of human soldiers parted ahead, and a tall gold-haired human in a dark blue uniform walked through with another armored soldier at his side.
After light's term, a term of cecity: the best hope for the future, that light will return and banish the follies, sophistries, delusions, which have accumulated in the darkness. Matthew Arnold
He was dressed in a worn tricorn, a dark homespun coat, knee-length breeches, dark stocking, and heavy brogue shoes.
The shirt was that little bit too pink, there was one button too many left carefully-casually undone and the tan was a shade and a half too dark.
The dark foliage makes a bold backdrop throughout summer and turns bright red in autumn. Times, Sunday Times
Don't surrender to this dark woeld.
The Ring made watching the video scary, and The Grudge… well, try walking into a dark room after you've seen it.
Despite the dark tint and moody atmosphere of the show, the set lights up in fluorescents and strong blues and yellows, and the colors come through strong.
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness begins and concludes on the Thames, that ‘tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth’.
But he's a timid child, fearful of water, heights, spiders, darkness and the great outdoors.
Growing in part shade, the clusters of pure white bell-shaped flowers look their best as the sun moves from them and they are left to give a patch of light in front of a dark-leaved heuchera.
Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
Soccer matches and other entertainments were to be banned after dark.
That means pearly white skinless cod or haddock under a casing of crisp batter the colour of dark honey, served with golden chips. Times, Sunday Times
The girls attained dark expressions and each of them started growling slightly.
Lou's car turned around, and sped off down the quiet dark street as Ted stood under the glow of a lamp post, reflecting on all that had happened that night.
And 'offloaded' him into a Master in anticipation of the great dark knight? The Tao Of Sith
The young woman wore dark leathers, much as the old tapestries depicted the Harshini. TREASON KEEP
As darkness drew near I joyfully and thankfully watched the pinks, purples, blues and golden colors of the sky melt together into a picture-perfect sunset.
Kislev is a land of dark pine forests, snow-clad wilderness and wind-swept steppes.
Together they climbed the dark stairs.
He overcomes its characteristic darkening during preparation by throwing in a carrot.
The roof terrace looks down into the Grassmarket, while inside the subdued lighting and dark wooden furniture lends itself to romantic candlelit dinners.
From the seed feeders on the deck come the euphonious calls of chickadees, the bell-like trill of the dark-eyed juncos, the down-slurred whistle of the titmice, the “ank-ank” of the nuthatches, the “zree” of the house finches, and the coo of doves; from the nectar feeders and flowers, the whirr of hummingbird wings. Birdology
The watcher's eyes glim - mered in the darkness, well back in the shadows, bright and feral. Ilse Witch
I chose blackstrap molasses because its hearty, slightly bitter flavor gave the gingerbread a dark, heavy richness.
Field soldiers during the cold war, some hold dark secrets that could topple governments.
The ability to control the darkness is the ability to command the light, and the ability to control the waters is the ability to delimit their boundaries and make them useful rather than destructive; useful for sustaining life. Final Participation and the Light of God « Unknowing
Their opera is the mysterious and darkly moving tale of what happened after the pied piper left Hamelin.
He looked young, dark and sharp-featured, with hollow cheeks.
You're lost and alone in a dark cavern. Christianity Today
She was looking strained and had dark circles beneath her eyes.
From the dark streets of the city, whether lit by a single streetlamp or brazenly flashing neon signs, to the desolate coastline, where Marlowe is first blackjacked by an unknown assailant, there is no safe haven from disorder and danger. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
In the dark, the Main Building feels like a place you'd get to after trekking through a bandit-ridden forest on an RPG. POPCO
Eli undershot this dark system. i oversaw Jaime when ate me Sky! it told present arch, that enwound sadly... above plough reeved whistle, driving wrung anti the week despite blue chance: "who he gainsaid us? 26th January '05
Like one that would suck up the darkness like a vacuum cleaner.
At that moment a sudden darkness descended upon the house.
These pumps have been around for years and as winter rolls in, the only way to wear them under trousers is in the darker colors (slightly scuffed), with opaque tights. Does the Shoe Fit? Finding the Perfect Flat
Even in the darkness of a damp February night there was a carnival atmosphere.
The long bangs of her dark hair fell in front of her face.
I don't want to relive my dark past. The Sun
Under that scale, brown is measured as dark grey, whereas shades of rust and buff are lighter grey.
Her dress is of dark blue silk with a low-cut neck and a wide embroidered collar. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
It will go much darker and become less pungent in both taste and aroma. The Sun
The air in the building was dark and brown, like the air the rank and file breathed down under the ground.
The bright facades of present-day Willemstad conceal the dark secrets of offshore finance.
As darkness fell, rescue workers with flashlights began recovering and identifying bodies.
I can't see so well, it's getting dark and the reeds are tall here, willowy reeds that slap your face when you climb down with your rake and cull and dreg the day. Dock
It is early evening, but the sky is prematurely dark; thunderheads have blocked the last rays of the sun.
I was glad to meet Alan Savory, the opposition spokesman - a young, cool customer, dark and striking.
The darkest side of our adventurism is our global network of military prisons (authorized by the Secretary of Defense and Pentagon) where physical and mental torture are practiced even though it's known no useful information comes from it. A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic
There were four curtained windows through which we could see that it was already dark outside, and a door that was slightly ajar.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
And the idea of the wind chimes, oiled, wrapped and protected in rolls of aromatic hessian sacking, lying up in the dark of the garage loft against some future need, is pleasing enough.
She had been gone about an hour, when the sky suddenly darkened, the wind rose and the thunder rolled in prelude to the storm. The Hidden Hand
As we peer into the dark caverns of this empty metaphor, we try to discern shapes in our future. Exploring language (6th edn)
This time it was a decrepit, dark and deserted Tudor style house.
There was dark hair spilling over her shoulder, a soft voice whispering endearments in her ear.
Everything was dark and his sight was dimmed by heavy fog.
When I turned around, Charlie was still standing at the counter with a mischievous gleam in his dark eyes.
This tragedy graphically demonstrates the dangers of walking on the fells after dark.
The woman was white, aged 18 to 20, 5ft 10 in with tied back black hair and dark clothing.
She usually wore a dress of dark gray stuff, with immense pockets, a black silk neckerchief folded over her shoulders, a white tamboured muslin cap, with a black ribbon passed two or three times round the crown. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
If we'd gone much further it would have been dark before we finished all this rigmarole.
It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason.
The three decades of Nicholas's rule came to be regarded as a particularly dark period of Russian history.
The morning sky was cloudless, and a dark shade of slate gray, not yet dawn.
Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss.
A dark green southwester curled down around his face, hiding it in darkness. THE KILL CLAUSE
Her bite marks were still visible on his arm, bluer, inkier, darker than his tattoo. Beard
With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones? and fan, Carrion Comfort « Unknowing
I hiked furiously, but it was pitch-dark and snowing.
She often identifies herself with a blonde princess, but never with a dark-haired prince. Times, Sunday Times
They crowded around me and watched me expectantly, as if I would spill my darkest, most revealing secrets.
It would have been dark except for the light coming from the translucent side panels.
In the darkened theatre, I asked myself what became of her, but I found her in the seat behind me, gin-soaked and belching while she dozed.
Sometimes the counterfeiters are fly-by-night operations, but just as often they're legitimate companies that have a dark side.
; the river raced in turbid waves; the sand drove in clouds; and the face of the sky was darkened as if by a London fog. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
I looked up at dark branches silhouetted against a leaden sky.
A cost-effective way to make your existing workout kit suitable for dark nights is to add a reflective vest. The Sun
Colours were good, if none too subtle, but poor contrast made for murky dark scenes with objects lacking depth. Times, Sunday Times
The Joint Dark Energy Mission is designed to study the details of the universe's acceleration.
I even epilate my face to get rid of any tiny dark hairs. The Sun
It's a difficult companion, prone to accusatory comments and dark moods, and it changes you, leaving you both tougher and more tender.
The screw driver is mightier than the sword, hey, Dink?" called the irrepressible Roy, as Dinky hurried away into the darkness. Tom Slade with the Colors
I thought I could bestow beauty like a benediction and that your half-dark flesh would answer to the prayer.
He snuffled, dark hair damp against my neck, his mouth rooting to take hold of my collarbone. Brush of Darkness
It was a quiet, dark night, foggy and drizzling with rain.
I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
Dark brows winged out in perfect arches above her deep set eyes. JUST BETWEEN US
Imagine, if you will, the Bubba Keg (a gift from Aunt M-mv) filled to capacity (52 ounces) with Trader Joe's French roast, brewed dark and strong, the way a certain autodidact favors it. Archive 2004-12-01
The wind of evening shook the dark leaves to a thin airy cackle. The Garden Party, and Other Stories
They then painted the outlines of their face and facial features with a dark color of acrylic paint, tracing their pencil sketch through the Plexiglas.
"In the past lasers couldn't safely penetrate darker pigmented skin, " Dr Weiss said.
Her gown was made of silk, and the slip was made of crushed velvet in a shade of purple that was darker yet.
Meanwhile the dark-haired woman, who after all these years I still remember so vividly, wears an unbelievably sexy one-piece outfit that appears to be sewn from rags.
The top of the picture is a dark pall, through which the canvas shows as almost invisible gold filigree. The Times Literary Supplement
In addition, there are the Lesser Ones, much smaller spheres that serve the Great Ones; the Dark Ones, enemies of the Great Ones; and the pigmies, stunted humanoids in the care of the Lesser Ones. "Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 5
A dark-blue Peugeot is parked, with a bullet-headed man at the wheel.
something dark and inhuman in form
They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
His dark hair was matted with sweat, his expression strained and empty, the expression of release. Strangers In the Night
Den dare is dese young niggers what ain't fit to be called darkies, dat tries to ac 'eddicated, and says dat it ain't any spe'rits dat walks de earth. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1
I didn't get much of an impression of the place because it was dark when we drove through it.
If this were so, it could very well be that the chain or pulley or linkages to the back end were removed in the photo retouching because they were too difficult to cut around (if the manip was done as a collage) or to frisket out (if the manip was a double exposure process in a darkroom). 1933 Walker: Fact or Fraud?
He might have confirmed the relation between dumbness and darkness from the acutest metaphysician among poets, in Dante's _ove il sol tace_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ordinary matter and dark matter loosely track each other in space, but not in a one-to-one ratio.
The balsam impatiens usually grows as a two- or three-stemmed plant to a height of 2 1/2 feet, with white to dark red flowers tucked into the leaf axils, where they tend to be overshadowed by leaves.
It was obviously faux-meat that was actually called "seitan" (seriously pronounced "Satan," as in the prince of darkness). Daily Campus
It is a disturbing, dark tale and perhaps one the victims might have been better left to recover from in peace. Times, Sunday Times
His mood was darkly apocalyptic, seeing everything in life-and-death terms.
My demise was once plotted here, deep in this dark sombre forest. Times, Sunday Times
He had dark circles under his eyes caused by insomnia and malnutrition. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
But then it helps you to understand all this darkness and negativity and you begin to confront and deal with it. Times, Sunday Times
In fact in the physical world the only "darkside" is a black hole. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
I hurried through the cold dark streets, guided more by my sense of direction than my eyes. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The image shows a slightly chubby-faced man with receding, dark cropped hair, tanned skin and stubble.
Meanwhile, all of Africa and large parts of Asia would lie dark and unlit as if during a wartime bombing raid, a fate that one or two places down there would actually be enduring.
I blinked in surprise; her dark, sandy-blond hair, rough in texture, was now streaked with green.
Off to the Charity Ball is a firm favourite, with its livid pastels against bright white, the skulking figures throwing dark, tactile shadows onto the projecting shelf below.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
The black juggernaut with its fourteen wheels drove past, all lit up in the accumulating darkness.
As she turned uphill, a dark-red Daimler slid by, and blew its horn at her.
Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage. The Frozen Pirate
Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky.
Do you hit the town after dark, collapse quietly with a book or go celebrity-spotting?
the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness
She is wearing her school uniform of dark blue blazer, grey skirt, white shirt, school tie and blue jumper.
She had freckles, level gray eyes, a round nose, and straight dark blond hair parted in the middle.
She was fumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch.
Ash was now falling on to the ships, darker and denser the closer they went, together with pieces of pumice and rocks that were blackened and shattered by fire.
The figure wearing dark suit, open-necked shirt and stubble, sheltering beneath an umbrella from the torrential rain outside a London cinema, could hardly look more glum.
I'm sure Sergen meant well and simply wanted to share his pleasure with the widest possible audience, yet there is a dark interpretation of these events: namely, that the Besiktas players were attempting some kind of wind-up.
He looked rumpled, in an unironed plaid shirt and khakis that suddenly appeared too short, bits of his dark socks visible between hem and shoe. Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
Pascoe heard her scream and scrambled across junk and debris in the darkness.
So dark are the shadows that a man standing there could not be seen.
We sat on deck until it was dark.
She had a dark and straight hair, with bangs falling over her purple eyes.
She groped blindly for the light switch in the dark room.
The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.
When she asked what it was, I responded ‘Homemade marshmallows, roasted peanuts and cocoa nibs enrobed in dark chocolate’, a dark mood crossed her face.
He became familiar with the dark underbelly of life in the city .
It was Corrary who pointed, and drew their gaze to the dark shadow on the water.
It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.

How To Use Dark In A Sentence

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