How To Use Darkening In A Sentence

He overcomes its characteristic darkening during preparation by throwing in a carrot.
They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
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.
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 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.
The sun set and in the darkening light she lost sight of the larl. Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
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.
I wake in a darkening room with a tickle in my arm.
Overhead in the darkening sky, the gathering thunderclouds rumbled a warning.
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.
At dusk bunches of these tireless birds rise so high that they become mere crescentic specks in the darkening sky.
This afternoon, many people in the office turned to look at the darkening grey skies and the rain spitting on the windows.
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
He stared down at her, his deep brown eyes darkening with barely restrained emotion.
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
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.
His new collection of shorter poems, Darkening Water, has as its title suggests a valedictory aspect.
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.
Scott could see her eyes darkening with anger.
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.
Ting's bag was darkening and getting heavier with every raindrop but I refused to think about the symbolism. THE MANANA MAN
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.
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)
Kwaque serving and loving his master and thickening and darkening and creasing his brow with the growing leprous infiltration; Ah CHAPTER XII
We walked out of the station and I looked up at the city walls, silhouetted against the darkening evening sky.
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.
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'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.
They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
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)
The sky was darkening and it began to rain. Times, Sunday Times
It also offers a subtle means of darkening greying hair. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
Along the darkening mountain-paths the two gentlemen (for such their outward bearing proclaimed them) caracoled together. Novels by Eminent Hands
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 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.
We got there as the sky was darkening and incredibly bright, jagged flashes of pink lightning sheeted across the sky.
A lifeless man, lying outstretched on a certain hearthstone, might be found once in a house and awaken no special comment; but when this same discovery has been made twice, if not thrice, during the history of a single dwelling, one might surely be pardoned a distrust of its seemingly home-like appointments, and discern in its slowly darkening walls the presence of an evil which if left to itself might perish in the natural decay of the place, but which, if met and challenged, might strike again and make another blot on its thrice-crimsoned hearthstone. The Filigree Ball
By switching the sibling roles and darkening their relationship, Chéreau found echoes of the emotional distance he feels from his own brother.
We sat in silence until the sun had set and stars began to appear in the gradually darkening sky.
The sun had set, and a darkening gloom hung over the land.
It was clouding over outside and the lake was darkening.
She could make the blood run cold of any trick or treater darkening the door of her house tomorrow night. Heckling, H1N1, sexism, politics, poor taste and an apology - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca
These include the dahlias and impatiens as well as roses, cyclamen, nicotiana, geum and the darkening petals of Sedum spectabile.
The wind was rising in the darkening sky, viciously whipping up the sea around the ship.
In the darkening evening the horizon bulged with a dome of fluorescent white light glowing against the black of the sky as the convoy began to arrive.
An annual climber, every day at least one flower untwists to show the colour of a rainwashed blue sky, and by the evening it curls up again, reverting to a darkening purple.
The arguments over nuclear power will rage on into the darkening night. Times, Sunday Times
It was here the new Carlow confidence shone like the sun breaking through after rapidly darkening skies which almost called for floodlighting.
It is a coolish early-summer evening, and a bleary grey dusk is gradually darkening into night.
Subconsciously, I noticed his eyes darkening, to almost a blood red colour.
I do not know any man whose future character could so well be prophesied from the past as GS. whatever virtues, whatever abilities he possessed, would dilate & his foibles which instead of darkening the brighter parts of the picture served only to make the pleasant xxxx them more visible by a little shade. a thousand little incidents were recalled to remembrance by his name, & if at first melancholy — as reminding me of many friends now scattered wide “By many fates” [3] — I delighted in the thought that the best part of the flock will soon be gathered together again. Letter 162
On this perspective, the week from hell was less a passing squall than an ominous darkening of the clouds.
We felt the tragopans slipping inexorably away into the darkening forest.
In the ever darkening of approaching night he noticed very little in way of cover, and the mansion itself stood on a slight rise in the distance.
The evening sun was hidden behind the darkening clouds, and no electric lights shone from the windows of the surrounding houses.
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
Outside, it is a typical monsoon morning sky alternating between brilliant sunburst and darkening clouds.
This causes yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes, darkening of the urine and pale clay coloured stools.
He was fated to encounter and to display the carping and the crimination that always attend the gloom of a darkening cause. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
The river itself hummed with natural energy, crystal clear water darkening to a thick indigo to show its depth.
It has for long been thought that, as wood is seasoned outdoors and turns grey, darkening the ground beneath it, harsh tannins are being leached out of the wood.
The turquoise sea swooshed gently under the darkening sky.
The darkening sky cast the dead stone landscape into nightmare shadows like an unquiet cemetery.
Yellow, red, and blue flares darkening to deepmost purple twisted and writhed around there, raw energy disciplined and held in check by immense unseen forces. The Howling Stones
But first, even before I spotted the geese or the fireworks of light on the darkening waters, there was the killdeer on a rock, startling me with its cry that rose above the roar of traffic from the onramp to the freeway nearby.
They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
Ereana thought about this as stars began to dot the darkening sky.
The sky was darkening and it began to rain. Times, Sunday Times
Against the horizon a peasant boy leaned on his staff and darkled against the darkening sky. Familiar Spanish Travels
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
Caidryn laughs bitterly, the angry bruise on her face darkening her features even further.
The sun had begun to set outside and my living room was darkening quickly.
Pigments generally are more affected by oxidation and fading in a water vehicle, and by deoxidation and darkening in one of oil. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
There was a darkening of the lighting, about two inches wide and one high, right above the centered name on the display frame.
His sadness was gradually melting into anger; I could see his eyes darkening.
Overhead puffy fragments of fair-weather cumulus drifted across the darkening evening sky. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
Becca thought about the ride back from Chelmno, with the day darkening around them: first a grey mist off the Narew, then the clouds closing entirely over the sky, and at last a steady drizzle which accompanied them the rest of the way. Briar Rose
Only the darkening sky remains. Times, Sunday Times
I simply do not have confidence in him to navigate the waters ahead skilfully enough to avoid or survive the darkening clouds on the horizon.
The large nurse was standing in the doorway, one hand resting on her wide hips, and a snarl darkening her face.
When the shout startled her she had been in a pensive mood, gazing from the living room onto the darkening scene outside.
Rebecca drew curtains over one of the windows, darkening the room considerably.
She vaguely points downwards, as if alerting the darkening world to imminent nightfall.
V. viii.7 (146,1) Even with the vail and darkening of the sun] The _vail_ is, I think, the _sinking_ of the sun; not _veil_ or _cover_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Shadow fell upon shadow; darkening nadirs entwining like oily hands across walls and uncarpeted floors.
“In point of _direct_ sensibility, the chrysotype paper is certainly inferior to the calotype; but it is one of the most remarkable peculiarities of gold as a photographic ingredient, that _extremely feeble impressions once made by light go on afterwards, darkening spontaneously and very slowly, apparently without limit so long as the least vestige of unreduced chloride of gold remains in the paper_. Photographic Reproduction Processes
They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
Melanie drew the curtains, darkening the room.
Enough to say the poultry is all to evacuate the premises at Christmas, and meanwhile the cock is shut up in a dark cellar from darkening till after our breakfast. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
I was so drawn to the painting of darkening skies and weary horses on a shore in Le Havre where he was born, I said, 'Who was that young man?' Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Author Stephanie Cowell Chats About Claude and Camille and Her Next Historical Novel
It is reported for paintings that the areas in which megilp was used, suffered softness, darkening and a cloudy appearance.
Outside, large, darkening swirls of gray began to form across the already slate-colored sky.
A circular boat, woven with bamboo and lined with buffalo hide, the coracle offers a leisurely drift, allowing you to watch hornbills flying against the darkening sky, returning to nest in the tall trees close to the river.
She wandered out into the darkening grounds, across the lawn towards the trees.
The red and gray sky above the rooftops is darkening and the inhabitants are hastening home for dinner.
Mrs.Dalloway. 8vo, gilt-lettered burgundy cloth, slightly cocked, spine ends lightly rubbed, a bit of toning to endleaves; original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, scattered overall darkening and rubbing, spine panel toned and with an uneven 1/4-inch chip at head affecting "M" of Mrs (small cellotape repair on verso), and few minor chips at foot not affecting lettering. first edition in the scarce dust jacket. 2009 October 01 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
The man chuckled, slung an arm across the little girl's shoulder, and together, watched as the last streaks began to fade in the rapidly darkening sky.
The sky was darkening, clouds turning deeper shades of purple, red, and blue.
The only cinematic cue to promote tension is the following shot of a darkening sky as storm clouds roll in.
Victor sits back, annoyance darkening his gaze.
Open air, under a darkening Delhi sky, is an extraordinarily effective setting in which to watch 200 years of history come alive.
There are several which will yield basic info such as radius, some measure of limb darkening, and some measure of gross shape – speckle interferometry, intensity interferometry, deconvolution of eclipse light curves (in eclipsing binaries), stellar occultations (by the lunar limb), more? Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today
‘Do not dare to speak to me in such a way,’ he said at last, his blue eyes darkening as he spoke.
Its rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee revived the central bank's stimulus program in October, after concluding that a darkening outlook eant inflation was at risk of undershooting its 2% target by the end of 2012. U.K. Consumers Repay Debt, Money Supply Shrinks
In early July, a huge sand storm -- dubbed a haboob -- swallowed the Phoenix valley, darkening the streets, sending residents scrambling for cover and cutting power to thousands of homes. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
She nearly yelled, her clear green eyes darkening with anger.
But while everything on the outside looked peachy, the view from the inside of that Madrid hotel room was darkening rapidly.
Every child must leave the nest someday, he said, his expression darkening like someone who had to face an unpleasant truth. Lightning Strikes
The zenith was a deep blue, darkening opposite the setting sun, and paling over it into a peach colour, and that again near the horizon passing into a glowing orange-red, crossed by coppery streaks of cirrhus. Himalayan Journals — Complete
Beneath the darkening sky, wranglers make final adjustments to harnesses and jingling bells as the teams of locomotive-size draft horses shift impatiently, clouds of steam puffing from their noses.
Andy released a deep breath and looked back out the front window, hurt darkening her eyes.
They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
the darkening mood
In the darkening light, street lamps began to light up and windows glowed with indoor illumination.
They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
As soon as they entered, the nurse crossed the room and closed the blinds, darkening the room to a gentle glow.
"I'm not fooling around, " Colby replied, his own eyes darkening.
There are other reported side effects, which are annoying, but not nearly so devastating, such as itchiness in 4% of the patients and temporary darkening of the eyelid skin. Roseanne Colletti: Can You Turn Your Blue Eyes Brown?
Rich came running up behind me, his expression darkening as he took in the ransacked tent. The Children of the Lost
The hills were darkening on their eastern slopes; the shadows of the few poplars that sparsedly dotted the dusty highway were falling in long black lines that looked like ditches on the dead level of the tawny fields; the shadows of slowly moving cattle were mingling with their own silhouettes, and becoming more and more grotesque. On the Frontier
Ting's bag was darkening and getting heavier with every raindrop but I refused to think about the symbolism. THE MANANA MAN
The horizon was darkening, now; a blue, red, purple, and orange mixing precariously around the tangerine clouds littering the sky.
As the day of reckoning approached on a slow wave of inevitability - the new cold snap on the air in the mornings, the crisp red and grey and blue and white uniforms in the shop windows, the darkening evenings, the TV trailers for the glossy new autumn programmes - I could feel the new term padding towards me. Archive 2009-08-01
The twisting limbs of oak trees are silhouetted against a darkening sky as a nearly full moon rises in the east.
The evening sky was darkening as I made my way home.
In the evening the Mekong always seemed to come alive, changing its colour like a chameleon, camouflaging itself against the darkening sky until it swallowed the sun.
Only the darkening sky remains. Times, Sunday Times
Andy nodded, the concerned expression still darkening her blue eyes.
The further western altitudes shift their pearline gray to deep blue where the sky is yellowing up behind them; and in the darkening hollows of nearer mornes strange shadows gather with the changing of the light -- dead indigoes, fuliginous purples, rubifications as of scoriae, -- ancient volcanic colors momentarily resurrected by the illusive haze of evening. Two Years in the French West Indies
He had to go into the darkening jungle.
Researchers have readily developed a transmissive polymer, but its useful lifetime, curtailed by photochemical darkening, is still insufficient by almost three orders of magnitude.
Vicki looked up, confusion darkening her eyes.
First Lt. Bill Bower, ready to bail out, paused at one of the bomber's hatches and peered into the darkening sky below for some sign that his crew got out of the aircraft safely.
The darkening seedheads of Northern Sea Oats look dark against the 'Purple Dragon' lamium, but light against the Japanese maple foliage: A Study in Contrasts
It was at that point that his abdomen expanded, little by little, darkening toward blackness as the distension increased. Between Expectations
These include the dahlias and impatiens as well as roses, cyclamen, nicotiana, geum and the darkening petals of Sedum spectabile.
The play begins at 7 p.m., so once you get out of the city traffic, you can relax and watch the darkening road ahead being slowly lit with slivers of light from diminutive shops.
These darkening and tiny bumps are also seen on the knuckles of the fingers.
Elizabeth's jaw dropped and her brows knitted together, her green-blue eyes darkening like thunderclouds.
The sky was darkening quickly, threatening foul weather and danger in the distance.
Gate, darkening the water, cresting tiny wavelets, making the sailboats fly. CHAPTER XV
I turn and see that the sun is now gone, and the sky is darkening rapidly.
But then his gaze dropped, his expression darkening into its familiar scowl. Boys and Girls Like You and Me
She thought about this as stars began to dot the darkening sky.
Darkening of the urine is most noticeable in the morning, either because the urine is more concentrated or there is increased hemolysis at night.

How To Use Darkening In A Sentence

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