[
UK
/dˈɑːkənd/
]
[ US /ˈdɑɹkənd/ ]
[ US /ˈdɑɹkənd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
become or made dark by lack of light
a darkened house
the darkened theater -
(of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time
the darkened margins of the paper
How To Use darkened 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.