How To Use Darken In A Sentence

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.
In the darkened room behind this diorama, a wall-sized video projection showed a seascape of lapping waves.
He overcomes its characteristic darkening during preparation by throwing in a carrot.
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
It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason.

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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.
; 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 like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.
I am oppressed by a nameless and mysterious suffering, .. my brain is darkened, -- my thoughts but half-formed and never wholly uttered, and I, -- I who once deemed human intelligence and reason all-supreme, all-clear, all-absolute, am now compelled to use that reason reasonlessly, and to work with that intelligence in helpless ignorance as to what end my mental toil shall serve! Ardath
As I tucked into this steaming Bunter-sized platter out on the darkening waters, I swear I heard the seals give a loud bark of disapproval.
He quickly shed his clothes and climbed gratefully into a bed that hadn't been used in too long, turning on his side so his back was to the darkened glass.
The lights up and down the street fizzled and popped, their sparks the last bit of light on a suddenly darkened street.
I lay alone in the darkened bedroom, staring into ashy, cool murkiness.
It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
High solutions (100 parts per million or above) may carry an increased risk of side effects, including a condition called argyria, in which the skin darkens or turns blue. Alison Rose Levy: Is Silver the Solution?
This smoke or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead and the hazy stretches of brown common towards Chertsey, set with black pine trees, seemed to darken abruptly as these puffs arose, and to remain the darker after their dispersal. The War of The Worlds
In the darkened operations room below decks, grey overalled officers and sailors watched an approaching blip on their radar screens.
Her features darkened, and a tear appeared in her left eye.
The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red. Times, Sunday Times
The final part of the instillation is a great heptagonal glass case in a darkened room. "There's a shark-shaped fin, in the water of my dreams..."
Wilhelm lifted his head and fastened his eyes on the darkened house for a long moment, as though etching that sight into his mind forever.
The cold white light blazed and the trees were very old and the bark of them was a crackling silver and a lurid darkening red. Times, Sunday Times
He looked up, concern darkening his young eyes.
He flipped on the light, spied her on the bed, and his expression darkened with concern. Ecstasy in Darkness
The sun set and in the darkening light she lost sight of the larl. Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
Scott turned slightly while she was still in his arms and shut the door behind them then reaching for the light switch the room darkened around them.
A beard of several days darkened his face, and nearly every bit of mail, leather and armor plate that he wore seemed to have acquired some blemish or other.
Darken the eyebrows with dark brown or black powder - pencil gives a very harsh look.
She just hoped they would arrive before the ever-darkening clouds let loose with a soaking rain, sleet, or snow.
A thick cloud rolled rapidly across the sands , darkening the sky with a dense green haze.
The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly. The Dew of Their Youth
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
Sin has much more weakened man's will than darkened his intellect, and the rebellion of the sensual appetite, which we call concupiscence, does indeed disturb the understanding, but still it is against the will that it principally stirs up sedition and revolt: so that the poor will, already quite infirm, being shaken with the continual assaults which concupiscence directs against it, cannot make so great progress in divine love as reason and natural inclination suggest to it that it should do. Treatise on the Love of God
The color darkens his eyes just slightly without causing him to look any paler.
His darkened eyes looked down at her from her disheveled hair, her untucked shirt, her jeans, and down to her unlaced sneakers.
As the skies over euroland darken, at least the jokes in Brussels are getting better. Eurozone crisis: European Union prepares for the 'great leap forward'
On the darkened half-landing Frankie rubbed his face to wipe away the last of his tears.
When the powdered something hit the water, a filmy silver light hovered over the rim of the smooth darkened wood of the cup.
The PVA solution was deposited in polystyrene molds under the force of gravity in a darkened room.
That terrible traffic accident darkened her eyes.
As the roast darkens, caffeine and acidity decrease proportionately.
In the Kodiak harbor, the salmon seine fleet was loading supplies and heading out for an opening the next day, and schools of inch-long smolt darkened the water.
Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow, or shower; The Iliad of Homer (1873)
As someone whose lacrimal ducts only get a rare outing in darkened cinemas, the 60-word dedication was enough to set me off. Times, Sunday Times
Her natural eyebrows had thinned with age, but they were darkened and thickened with great black pencil lines which jutted down the sides of her face.
I wake in a darkening room with a tickle in my arm.
Overhead in the darkening sky, the gathering thunderclouds rumbled a warning.
Vicki stepped off the overflowing bus with a sigh, the forlorn glaze that had darkened Wil's eyes setting heavy on her heart.
Whilst I am being held by the sleep of despair and darkened with the mist of malice, do thou, O precursor, restore me with thy bright intercession and grant that I may beseemingly walk as in the clay of virtues. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
Uncertainty darkens the future of radio and television.
In a darkened hallway, a young girl and her parents stare after the teenager tramping upstairs.
His face had darkened with shame at having his pleasure aroused in public by one of his daughters.
Knowing that she was still in danger if she remained here, I lifted her tenderly and took flight, dogs baying at our heels as I loped along darkened paths.
A sharpening nip to the wind made me look south, where a familiar pearling of the sky and darkening of sea showed that the ferryman's prophecy was set to come true.
The sky darkened, and mysterious howls and hoots came from every direction.
Suddenly the mood has darkened. Times, Sunday Times
But then - did the sky darken? Times, Sunday Times
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
At dusk bunches of these tireless birds rise so high that they become mere crescentic specks in the darkening sky.
By little and little, the surface of the plate takes a yellow tint, which darkens more and more, approaching to bistre.
For those who might not know, drones cannot sting, but, of course most people are not aware of this fact; and anyway how could you tell whether a bee was a drone or not in a darkened cinema?
On Lisbon Street, once downtown's main commercial avenue, boarded-up storefronts sit next to adult bookstores and darkened bars.
This afternoon, many people in the office turned to look at the darkening grey skies and the rain spitting on the windows.
Africa, and the people in the market-place a lively and chromatic jangle; but the shadow of what we call inhumanity (when we are trying to persuade ourselves that humanity is something very different) chills and darkens the heart. Old Junk
The final part of the instillation is a great heptagonal glass case in a darkened room. "There's a shark-shaped fin, in the water of my dreams..."
The light spills on to the darkened street and the warmth reddens my cheeks in seconds.
A crackle of thunder ripped through the darkening sky and the rain became more intense.
There is a murmuring of applause and the players leave the field to the sound of nightingale song from the darkening sky. Fats, Nutrition and Health
I went into the darkened drawing room and sat watching the flickering of light on the TV screen.
He stared down at her, his deep brown eyes darkening with barely restrained emotion.
The Internet, whose discussion forums breed even more logomachy than they allow, can darken the vision and mood of almost anybody who spends much time on it. Getting perspective on ecumenism
I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
In summer evenings Mrs. Bolam could lie and watch the sun setting behind a castellation of sloping roofs and twisting chimneys with, in the distance, the turrets of St. Pancras St.tion darkening against a flaming sky. A Mind to Murder
The memory of his childhood darkened with age.
Hari remembered standing in the darkened street, watching the parade of carriages driving along Mumbles Road and into Gloucester Place.
against the darkening shore, eyes alight as she helped the seasick Monique to vomit over the side. RUSHING TO PARADISE
There was a darkening of the lighting, about two inches wide and one high, right above the centered name on the display frame.
Copperas was closely linked with the woollen industry because it was mainly used as a textile dye fixative, a dye darkening agent and a black dye.
From the darkened bar from which I dictate this missive, I can hear the starter engines revving up!
His new collection of shorter poems, Darkening Water, has as its title suggests a valedictory aspect.
The rocky coastline is a near monochrome of pale blues that darken in the rocks and billowing clouds as though illuminated by moonlight.
Darken Rahl came closer, close enough that the pain of his spirit coruscation was almost enough to make Richard back away. Temple of the Winds
Meanwhile, as the heavens darkened, the seas began to boil, and a voice tore through the clouds shouting, in deep, stentorian tones to one and all: "It was a Mistake!", campaign offices described themselves as "unperturbed". Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed "Hatred For The American Government"; Cursed "Damn Flag"
Over the years his bones have darkened to the rich caramels of their earthen tomb.
The sun was going down, the power station laid a creased white sleeve of smoke against the darkening sky.
Em shook her head, her thoughts darkening her mood once again.
His complexion had darkened, sallowed; his black moustache had lost boldness, become sardonic; there were lines which she did not know about his face. In Chancery
His eyes had immediately darkened, and his entire body had taken on an aggressive stance.
She guided us into the nurse's office, stopping for nothing, and sat us both gently down on a cot in one of the darkened sickrooms which was thankfully vacant.
In the darkened hallway Maddie listens to her shoes squish, and worries Miss Margaret won't take to the new girl the agency will have to send over, fussy like she is, and so close to the end.
The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial "peepshow" format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater.
In a darkened space, seven urinals lined one wall, each lit by a focused spotlight.
Outside, large frame houses present darkened facades along a sparsely trafficked street.
She was in what appeared to be a darkened room of some sort; a small, stuffy room full of grey, dusty objects.
Scott could see her eyes darkening with anger.
a power failure temporarily darkened the town
For example, the projection of film in the darkened auditorium and its public reception are important elements of the cultural experience of film.
She looks like death: the darkened rings under her eyes make her look like a sickly panda. Times, Sunday Times
The great brown mass darkened the sky above me. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Ultraviolet radiation penetrates the coating and carbonizes the oils in the wood, causing the wood to darken beneath the varnish.
All this bad news is darkening the mood of company executives.
Flat, gray clouds filled the darkening sky above her as the town prepared for yet another rainfall.
She gasped, staring at him, shock and pain darkening her eyes.
Watch out in the darkened closes and wynds of Edinburgh's Old Town, was the message from one of them to the new leader.
She crossed her arms under her head and leaned back then, watching the sky darken slowly.
A scowl darkened his brown eyes to black as he glared ahead.
Meanwhile, as the heavens darkened, the seas began to boil, and the voice tore through the clouds shouting, in deep, stentorian tones to one and all "It was a Mistake!", campaign offices described themselves as "unperturbed". The Palin Meltdown in Slo-Mo
Ting's bag was darkening and getting heavier with every raindrop but I refused to think about the symbolism. THE MANANA MAN
His eyebrows were heavy, dark, well-shaped... was it possible that he darkened them? LOST CHILDREN
Scores of people stood around in the darkened gallery straining to hear every word of the amazing, passionate reading.
It's hardly a grotto at all, merely a kink in the shadowy, soot-darkened stone passageway.
I couldn't see how far down the slabbed granite wall dropped, but as I peered into the darkening green water, I knew it was too far for me to even think about touching the bottom, not on air.
After an hour of calm good humour, his mood suddenly darkens and he embarks on a bit of a rant. Times, Sunday Times
The notion often prevails that if there be in the heart this divine witness of God's Spirit, it must needs be perfect, clearly indicating its origin by an exemption from all that besets ordinary human feelings, that it must be a strong, uniform, never flickering, never darkening, and perpetual light, a kind of vestal fire burning always on the altar of the heart! Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
I had bright red hair as a child, but it has progressively darkened to its current brown.
The sky began to darken as the storm approached.
SOUTHERN DINING SOCIETY SECTION: Do we have footage of the woman Borat identified as unattractive being consoled in her darkened living room later that night by her husband? November « 2006 « Gerry Canavan
Even with this stratagem the blue of sky and the green of palm trees is darkened considerably.
The building was darkened except for a single light burning in a third-story window.
The visor of each blast helmet in the pod darkened accommodatingly within three milliseconds to avoid temporary blindness, but each member of the strike team squinted reflexively.
This very ordinary subject is transformed by its subtlety of tonality; for Levitan had become a master of rendering the gradations of light as the sky darkens at dusk and moonlight establishes itself.
My sunny mood suddenly darkened.
A gruff officer was waiting for him, reeking of coffee, the edge of his brown mustache darkened by a recent beverage. DO NO HARM
By little and little, the surface of the plate takes a yellow tint, which darkens more and more, approaching to bistre.
Meanwhile, in the darkened depths, a threat greater than any Thor has ever before faced rises when the malignant Mangog threatens to unsheathe the Odinsword and bring Ragnarok upon the Norse gods. Marvel Comics Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
A good choice for the "gloomy days" of winter, readers will no doubt think of the tunnels they're coursing through when they consider the "o'er darkened ways made for our searching": John Lundberg: New York's Subway Replaces Poetry With More Ads
Kwaque serving and loving his master and thickening and darkening and creasing his brow with the growing leprous infiltration; Ah CHAPTER XII
Global city lights, derived from 9 months of observations from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, are superimposed on a darkened land surface map.
This may darken the wood slightly, but adds to the patina. Times, Sunday Times
We walked out of the station and I looked up at the city walls, silhouetted against the darkening evening sky.
As Cæcius, the "darkener," became ultimately changed into Cacus, the "evil one," so the name of Vritra, the "concealer," the most famous of the Panis, was gradually generalized until it came to mean "enemy," like the English word fiend, and began to be applied indiscriminately to any kind of evil spirit. Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
Not unless the darkened room has a mystery brunette in it. The Sun
The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial "peepshow" format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater.
The glassy lake began to ruffle itself below her, feeling the pulses of its interfluent springs, or sending through unseen sluices word of nightfall and evening winds to all its clustering companions that darkened their transparent depths in forest-shadows. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
The room seemed to darken perceptibly even though bright sunlight flooded its every corner.
The economic downturns in 1920 and 1921 darkened the public mood.
I paused before closing the drapes, watching the last of the sun vanishing beyond the silhouette of treetops in the west: a darkening sky, the underbellies of high wind-streaked clouds painted sienna and salmon by the setting sun.
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson
Her daddy and I both have chocolate hair and I keep praying her hair will darken and grow … maybe shaving is worth it? Monday Miscellany – Wednesday Style! | Her Bad Mother
But the edges of her symbol were darkened by the unholy fires of self-doubt.
Right now, however, Lewis' sponsors and management plot her future in the darkened corner of the studio, as stylists dress her and beauticians cluck over her eye shadow.
That night, streetlights shimmer in shivering puddles, darkened only briefly by the shadows of bicycles.
Its skies were often darkened by blizzards of snow geese and immense flocks of great blue herons, swans, diving ducks, terns, pintails, mallards, Canada geese, osprey, bald eagles and more.
So then in lustful, that is, in darkened affections, is the true distance from Thy face. The Confessions
As the instruments darkened, I raised my tinted visor and turned up the rheostats.
The chemical substance melanin is the pigment which darkens skin color. LSD and the Third Eye
If you do buy it in transparent plastic or glass bottles store it in a darkened cupboard. Alternative Health Care for Women
The darkened ceiling slanted down toward the eaves; on it, above the lamp was a pale blurry oval.
For evaluation of brain tumors, the patient will be placed in a quiet and darkened room before and after the injection. Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
At home that afternoon she sat in a darkened room, trying unhysterically to sort out not only this messy affair but also the general relationships within her family. Space
It was with the lie that they had eaten and drunk and talked and laughed, that they had waited for their carriole rather impatiently, and had then got into the vehicle and, sensibly subsiding, driven their three or four miles through the darkening summer night. The Ambassadors
I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
Confusion darkened her eyes and lowered her brows in a frown.
Darken the room. Shine the flashlight beam at the bowl.
After each film snippet, the darkened stage lit up to reveal that person in the flesh, dressed in street clothes and performing one phrase, center stage, before exiting.
They would need a van, or a large vehicle with darkened windows. Times, Sunday Times
Venom began to glow an unnatural green color as the room seemed to darken and time slowed as Bloodlust joined her sister with her own inhuman red illumination.
At this, the pink face darkens. Times, Sunday Times
I'm back at work tomorrow night and just the thought of it is like a cloud descending over me, closing me in and darkening my mood.
Here are floors of heat-treated birch (a process which hardens and darkens the wood).
Stand her in the middle of a darkened Victorian dining room draped with holiday greenery, a Christmas tree twinkling in the corner.
The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial "peepshow" format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater.
The sun, rising fat and slow made the darkened hat shop appear strange and purpled.
Regret darkened his brown eyes, making them appear almost black, as he lifted his gaze to Chelsea's.
They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
The adult in non-breeding plumage is similar, but with a white forehead that darkens to streaky black, as if the cap has receded.
As long as she kept her eyes on the darkening ground, Ravna could almost imagine this was someplace in her home terrane on Sjandra Kei. A Fire Upon the Deep
the darkening sky
I felt that it would take many returns to the Hamlet of Shakespeare to efface the impression of Mme. Bernhardt's Hamlet; and as I prepared to escape from my row of stalls in the darkening theatre, I experienced a noble shame for having seen the Dane so disnatured, to use Mr. Lowell's word. Literature and Life (Complete)
In rugby, played by consenting adults who tacitly accept a degree of how's-your-father whenever they take the field, pretty much anything goes, especially in the darkened recesses of scrum, ruck and maul. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
The sky was darkening and it began to rain. Times, Sunday Times
The Air Force intends the F-22 stealth fighter to be the grimmest perdition to darken the skies since mythological times.
It also offers a subtle means of darkening greying hair. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
Sufferers from migraine in the lower leagues tend to want to lie in a darkened room. Times, Sunday Times
If anything more darkens the mood of our brooding Chancellor it is warnings such as these.
• Breast changes: fullness, tenderness, tingling of nipples, darkened areolae Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
A large incensor sat upon the altar, gold on gold, the inner bowl darkened with years of offerings. Kushiel's Avatar
At least the new-look side took four wickets in 18 overs before increasingly heavy showers darkened the afternoon. Times, Sunday Times
A seething cloud of arcuated eyes and rapacious beaks, they darken the sky. Harlequin
They will start jumping a little, and will darken and get a smokier taste. The Sun
There skin was darkened and their black hair fell down to the middle of their backs.
Along the darkening mountain-paths the two gentlemen (for such their outward bearing proclaimed them) caracoled together. Novels by Eminent Hands
It was a tragedy that darkened his later life.
However, his eyes had darkened dangerously and she could not tell with what emotion.
When I at last concluded with a loud note of joy, a long, involuntary suspiration in the darkening room told me that I had been listened to with profound interest; and, although no word was spoken, though I was still a stranger and under a cloud, it was plain that the experiment had succeeded, and that for the present the danger was averted. Green Mansions
I walked up the stairs and glanced back at his darkened form in the garden.
Polarizers are most commonly used to darken blue skies in outdoor and scenic photographs by cutting through atmospheric haze.
I lay in his arms afterwards, the room darkening slowly as the afternoon died away.
The red pulse of the watchtower/lighthouse glows over the darkening scene, and this is what particularly commended the setting to Jan Kott, at a past performance which began at dusk.
I arched my back into him, and his eyes darkened dangerously.
Plans for the stoss birthday celebration, like the plans to inaugurate Saint Lorenz as Germany’s national cathedral, were put on hold as the war continued and bomber streams darkened the skies over the city. HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
We got there as the sky was darkening and incredibly bright, jagged flashes of pink lightning sheeted across the sky.
Casey clicked off the light and the room was completely darkened.
The sky is literally darkened by the swarming grasshoppers. Christianity Today
Shana's face darkened from pale pink to tomato red in a matter of seconds.
The sky has clouded over almost entirely, the day has darkened.
The room darkened, and Culley's outline melded into blackness beside her.

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