How To Use Darkish In A Sentence

  • The whitish and smoothish sleepers are fairly new, while the darkish and roughish sleepers may be 10 years old. Wooden sleepers are not used where there are termites.
  • This series, a darkish workplace comedy, was adapted for U.S. audiences from the British show of the same name—which means, as such adaptations always do, that its tone doesn't begin to approach the acid barbarity of the original. Bunnies and Lovelorn Males
  • Another possibility is to use additional characters – people who know your darkish protagonist well – to help inform his character. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Answering Questions on Characterization
  • Like Lanzarote, Tenerife is a volcanic island with darkish sands and no shortage of sunloungers.
  • The BluRay looks pretty great; a darkish and moody film like this benefits greatly. Michael Giltz: DVDs: Craig Ferguson... Genius?
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  • Properly speaking, in heraldry, the Battle Flag was a darkish blue Cross of St. Andrew set in a red field with 13 stars inside the cross (actually, this isn’t proper heraldic terminology, but that’s neither an academic speciality nor personal interest of mine). Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery
  • Those are great, darkish fantasy for middle grades, and actually wonderful books to boot. Rabid Reads "Haunted: The Ghost on the Stairs" by Chris Eboch
  • Many of these works conceal a subtle trace of humour, sometimes a bit darkish.
  • A kind of darkish sort of respectful Johnnie stood without. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories
  • All credit, then, to 59E59 Theaters' annual Brits Off Broadway festival for showing us a different side of Mr. Ayckbourn with his own crisp, tidy staging of "Neighbourhood Watch," a darkish comedy about the coming of fascism to a middle-class suburb. Guess Who's Coming to the Vineyard
  • We are talking about brunette, with substantial darkish blonde highlights, a colour that has allegiance to neither camp, called bronde. Times, Sunday Times
  • Standing next to her was a young girl of about 10 with brown hair in pigtails, blue eyes and darkish skin.
  • June was composed of grasses neatly interwoven in the shape of an ovate ball, the smaller end uppermost and forming the mouth or entrance; it was lined first with cottony seed-down, and then with fine grass-stalks; it was suspended among high grass, and contained five beautiful little eggs of a carneous white colour, thicky freckled with deep rufous, and with a darkish confluent ring of the same at the larger end. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
  • The suspect was in a dark short-sleeved shirt, darkish trousers, dark baseball cap with white motif on the front.
  • This may also be seen in artificial light or a darkish room. How to spot an illness just by looking at someone
  • The room was darkish; the slant of the late afternoon sun made only a small orange rectangle on the dark wood floor. Two Poets
  • My skin was darkish-olive like something smeared by an eraser. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
  • The sand on Mars is from basalt, which is a darkish gray color. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Incredible picture of stuff on Mars
  • His hair, darkish brown fading to grey, flies upwards in tufts.
  • It's a darkish area, so it needs to be lit up like fireworks.
  • All plumages of Red-tailed Hawks have a darkish band on the leading edges of the inner underwings, known as the ‘patagial’ markings.
  • Something of the rhapsodic style of the first set of these Strauss songs, not to mention their symphonic piano accompaniments, released a superabundance of energy within Kaufmann, and we discovered new dimensions in his artistry: a long-winded breath control, his openhearted romantic fervor, a darkish head tone, and a kind of pure ecstasy in his delivery. Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera
  • It does not matter that many of them have darkish complexions and names like Pepe.
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  • It is true that we had a few yards of darkish "gabardine," or light windproof material, which would have been extremely suitable for this purpose, but every yard of it had long ago been destined for some other use, so that did not get us out of the difficulty. The South Pole~ The End of the Winter
  • When fully developed they are somewhat flattened and umbilicated, with a central, darkish point representing the mouth of the follicle. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
  • It was still 'darkish' at 6 am this morning, the temperature was 56 degrees, and the sky was brooding and winterish. Hiraeth
  • One of the men, a darkish, shortish, possibly foreign man, has an eggshell-blue nylon shirt on. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • Plenty large enough to begin with, not less than sixteen feet long by twelve wide, and at least eleven high, all wood, not papered or painted, which I like much, as the kauri is a darkish grained wood; no carpet of course, but I am writing now at 10 P.M., with no fire, and quite warm. Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • Its underparts were pale, and the upper parts were a darkish, flat blue.

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