How To Use Darkness In A Sentence

Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
With a little coo of happiness he began to toddle forwards into the darkness, still clutching his bottle. MY BABYSITTER BITES BACK
The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness). Jezebel
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.
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

A split from his long-time girlfriend shortly after only served to drive him further into the darkness. 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.
The camera has a 32mm glass lens, and its automatic shutter allows you to take photos in near-darkness without a flash.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
The watcher's eyes glim - mered in the darkness, well back in the shadows, bright and feral. Ilse Witch
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
Like one that would suck up the darkness like a vacuum cleaner.
At that moment a sudden darkness descended upon the house.
Even in the darkness of a damp February night there was a carnival atmosphere.
As darkness fell, rescue workers with flashlights began recovering and identifying bodies.
A dark green southwester curled down around his face, hiding it in darkness. THE KILL CLAUSE
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
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
It was obviously faux-meat that was actually called "seitan" (seriously pronounced "Satan," as in the prince of darkness). Daily Campus
But then it helps you to understand all this darkness and negativity and you begin to confront and deal with it. Times, Sunday Times
The black juggernaut with its fourteen wheels drove past, all lit up in the accumulating darkness.
Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky.
the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness
Pascoe heard her scream and scrambled across junk and debris in the darkness.
It is clever, and being cocooned in a moving car while the story unfolds and darkness falls, ensure it is a memorable, even creepy experience.
Be a love beam that shines on the darkness of unlit souls. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Fires lighted at intervals formed a girdle of flame round the base of the mountain, so that when darkness fell, Maunganamu appeared to rise out of a great brasier, and to hide its head in the thick darkness. In Search of the Castaways
All day the eye of the sky bulges, lidless and forgiving until darkness comes to roost undisturbed in its lashes.
Elsewhere the drinkers sat in darkness, an umbrous gloom through which the orange flame of an occasional candle started.
I squinted into the darkness, barely distinguishing anything.
I see the lights of the Navy in darkness - the masthead lights, and red and green sidelights and stern lights.
And thrice in the time that I did go, there did be a running of feet amid the darkness; and odd whiles strange and horrid cryings in the night; so that I put a force upon my despair, and hid me; for, indeed, I had no right to lose care of my life, if there did be any chance yet that I find the Maid. The Night Land
The church commences her solemn service of each of these days with that part of the divine office called matins and lauds, and at this time Tenebrae from the _darkness_ with which it concludes. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
At that instant the museum was plunged into total darkness.
But though this darkness were wholly removed, there is another darkness, that ariseth not from the want of light, but from the excessive superabundance of light — _caligo lucis nimiæ_, (240) that is, a divine darkness, a darkness of glory, such an infinite excess and superplus of light and glory, above all created capacities, that it dazzles and confounds all mortal or created understandings. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
Then, when it is all over ... Out of the darkness there came a single brilliant flash.
The darkness began to lighten into a pale yellow, getting brighter as the seconds passed.
The light went out, and the room was plunged into darkness.
I didn't witness the circle of darkness, growing from the antisolar point like the mouth of a coal-black cosmic worm, gaping to swallow the world. Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Quarantine 1 - Greg Egan
Pain circled my head, blood trickled coppery in my mouth, and darkness called until the clock ticked into the next millisecond and my foot came down awkwardly on the dirt. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
we put in the darkness of the heart is called the moon dancing.
The stone interior of the church held darkness as a curved shell holds water.
“If America was a person, — and it sat down, — Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.” Making Light: We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire Nuku Nuku
And when the silent darkness enveloped all this beauty, and grandeur, and magnificence in undistinguishable gloom, my mind experienced that wonderful sense of freedom and relief which come from all that suggests the idea of boundlessness -- the deep sky, the dark night, the endless circle, the illimitable waters. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
Robert blinked in the sudden semi-darkness, the only illumination being the moonlight which shone through cracks in the curtains.
Count Robert had taken a single, indeed, but a deep draught, was more potent than the delicate and high-flavoured juice of the Gascogne grape, to which he was accustomed; at any rate, it seemed to him that, from the time he felt that he had slept, daylight ought to have been broad in his chamber when he awaked, and yet it was still darkness almost palpable. Count Robert of Paris
The only way to make them economically viable is to intensively rear British farmers in huge barns where thousands of them can be kept in semi-darkness and fed mashed up, infected sheep pellets.
The fallen tree pulled down electricity and telephone lines, plunging the entire area into darkness and cutting off land line communications.
The majority of species are active in the late evening or in the darkness of the night, and sphingids were assumed to use olfaction rather than vision to find and recognise flowers.
We all can trust in the words of the Lord as he brings hope in place of despair and light in place of darkness.
My consolation is that the solstice will occur soon and the darkness recede in what I call the optimistic months of the year, though autumn has its moments. The Storm's Mixed Metaphors
In this case, though, what she is becoming is lost in hazy metaphors of? out of darkness and into the sun.? Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com
According to myth Hades also imprisoned his wife, Persephone , in the underworld's eternal darkness.
Pupils contract in bright light, and dilate in darkness.
Eventually the brief day begins to feel unreal, an illusory comfort for those who cannot take the unrelenting darkness.
The electricity failed and the house was plunged into darkness.
Remus, in close orbit to Romulus, is locked in an odd rotation around its sun, causing half the planet to be in perpetual darkness.
I'm suddenly overcome by a surge of unhappiness and slump down on the desk, resting on my bloated belly, burying my face in the comforting but annoyingly podgy darkness of my arms.
When darkness descended we hurriedly cleared the kitchen table in order to commence our fretwork.
Izumi was standing in the middle of vast darkness, so dark that not even a farthing of dust or any particle could be seen.
A flight of stairs led down into the darkness.
I was waiting in the twilight semi-darkness, yawning, eyes half closed, and basically looking like a zombie.
But then it helps you to understand all this darkness and negativity and you begin to confront and deal with it. Times, Sunday Times
The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it.
The unfolding journey in the album, from the contemplative to the celebrative, is a perfect analog to the gradual evolution from darkness to the dawn, in our morning event. Joseph Vella: Interview: Paul Winter -- The 16th Annual Summer Solstice Concert June 18th NYC
In total darkness, the bird relies on its acute sense of hearing.
He then walked deeper into the darkness, looked at the empty throne, and then turned to walk out.
Mount Kazbek rose coldly white against the darkness of the threatening sky. Ardath
There was a flash of lightning and the house was plunged into darkness.
One suit to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. Times, Sunday Times
Lily pressed the switch and plunged the room into darkness.
The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A strong smell of disinfectant was hanging in the air, and fruit machines were winking sinisterly in semi-darkness.
Inspiration moves one from pessimism to optimism, from doubt to faith, from despair to hope, and from darkness to light! RVM
The nighttime pilot must deal with all the visual challenges common in daylight, compounded with a whole new set of challenges resulting from darkness.
We burst from the darkness into the hard white morning heat of the plaza, at a dead run.
We've all heard of the term guru, and while it's gotten misconstrued and possibly watered down into a layman's term lately, the original meaning of guru was simple -- one who helped to remove darkness in order to reveal the light. Alanna Kaivalya: 3 Qualifications of a Yoga Teacher
Australian Tim Minchin won the best newcomer award for his musical show ‘Darkness’.
In the near darkness Jonathan was faintly aware of hazel eyes staring up at him.
As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France: The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
Night/Darkness had fallen by the time we got back to the camp.
Embattled against the blessed angelic and archangelic host are the wicked cohorts of the Lords of Darkness. PROBLEM OF EVIL
It was just the two of them, in the warmth and near-darkness of the farmhouse kitchen.
In the sovereign workmanship of Nature herself, what garden of flowers without weeds? what orchard of trees without worms? what field of corn without cockle? what pond of fishes without frogs? what sky of light without darkness? what mirror of knowledge without ignorance? what man of earth without frailty? what commodity of the world without discommodity? The Common Reader, Second Series
‘Like a mine worked by unskillful hands’: this reminds us that Humboldt got his start in mining and that, for all his enlightenment, the darkness of the mine never quite left him.
They were walking determinedly, but in the darkness, she could not distinguish their faces.
Somewhere in the darkness over the Black Water the watching surfaceman heard some one call three times the name of Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
More than 27,000 homes were plunged into darkness by a major power failure.
On merchant ships the sailors work largely in darkness below decks because oil is a precious thing.
Intermittent darkness and flashing so played on the enemy line from Gommecourt to Maricourt that it looked like a reef on a loppy day. The Old Front Line
There is an extra hour of darkness on winter mornings.
With the oncoming of darkness, Tokyo city became alive with bright neon signs.
Valery conveys a sense of the viewer's charged state and the imminent darkness in his exclamatory tones, alternating lines with choppy rhythms with those that hurtle towards their close.
For a week after that visit her lights had failed to go on — darkness brooded out into the areaway, seemed to grope blindly in at his expectant, uncurtained window. Tales of the Jazz Age
Today this world is covered with spiritual darkness crime violence, vice cheating, lying, stealing, killing.
My hope is that we will realize that there was a context to our friend's fall and humbly wonder what might happen to us if we ever found ourselves in a sustained slough of disillusionment, despair and spiritual darkness.
we drove here and there in the darkness
Soon it'll be hello autumn chill, winter darkness and thermal underwear. Times, Sunday Times
A flurry of shots rang out in the darkness.
Darkness overwhelmed her senses and yet she knew of the undesirable fate her friend had fallen into.
The remaining troops disembarked in darkness, and on the following morning began the advance inland.
A word growled in the darkness would terrify the superstitious Sir The Brown Mask
Cand you feel my soul, there in darkness breathe on you?
Blending green, rooty vetiver and languid exotic flowers fagraea, tiare, ylang-ylang, the perfumer achieved a striking yang-yin, darkness-light sort of contrast of earthy, practically dirty and creamy-floral notes. Archive 2009-01-01
the footpads leaping from the darkness and Colum's cold despatch of two of them. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Her body emerged from the darkness like a shimmer of light playing across a velvet curtain.
Both were mighty queens in the underworld where they cast light upon the dead in their darkness.
It was becoming impossible to see the map in the gathering darkness.
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
They watched the familiar mountains fade into the darkness.
One of the tiny bat-creatures chittered nervously from the darkness.
His eyes became accustomed to the darkness, he saw veils of moving smoke, lighter shapes that suggested vast nudities, then rows of bent heads with blurred outlines. Death in Ecstasy
Szentkuthy stood as a beacon in this darkness of misery and cruelty.
The electricity failed and the house was plunged into darkness.
The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans.
IF all of a sudden this morning you find your world plunged into darkness and gloom, do not fear. The Sun
Weird shrieks were heard in the darkness.
Sonic's arch nemesis Dr. Robotnik has been banished from the Land of Darkness by an evil Metal Robotnik.
The road was uneven, often concealing deep chasms, all too ready to welcome unwary travelers into the darkness of some unseen cavern far below.
At dusk, as darkness is falling, small red or yellow lights are twinkling in the dark-blue autumn mist.
The door shut soundlessly behind me, encasing us in darkness.
Greenland is also subject to extreme cold and total darkness in winter. Times, Sunday Times
Somewhere out of my sight in the darkness, waves crashed against the breakwater.
Gun direction and elevation for several targets could be prepared ahead of time and carried out regardless of darkness, smoke, or foul weather.
There is a troubling darkness in its soul, which the righteous rhetoric and cynical evocation of God seem only to enhance.
We arrived at the village just as darkness fell.
Until we arrive at them, we perceive only a few torches to lighten the darkness, such as the era of Nabonassar, the war between Lacedæmon and Messene; even those epochs themselves are subjects of dispute. A Philosophical Dictionary
Darkness threw a cloak over my strangeness, so that people let me pass with a nod or a softly called greeting.
After the ruler's next refusal, a plague of locusts smote the land and Moses brought a darkness for three days.
As the alpenglow died and darkness tightened, they settled by their haul bags on the dirt beneath an overhang. The Wall
I needed my darkness, my scars and my bloodstains to feel like I mattered. Bryan Fenkart: To Be or Not to Be... Just Like Everyone Else
Rome, pick up Prince Charles, put him on the magic carpet, fly to London, clap the Cap of Darkness on him so that nobody can see him, set him down on the throne of his fathers; pick up the Elector, carry him over to his beloved Hanover, and the trick is done -- what they call a bloodless revolution in the history books. Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son
A golem isn’t really associated with darkness or hoodedness. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Open Writing Forum
For his villain-in-chief, however, Garner repurposes a name filched from the Norse pantheon - originally, Nastrond signified the underworld Shore of Corpses, but in Garner's Alderley he is the unseen Great Spirit of Darkness, moving against the child protagonists by means of minions like the "svart alfar". Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
All that could be seen of the two craft that the ship possessed were the two identical hatchways, which led into the darkness of the interior of the pods.
Walking in soft finnesko, the magnetician opens an inner door, to be at once accosted by darkness, made more intense after the white glare of the snow. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
As night came,the house faded into darkness.
That door was flung back, and in the square of dripping darkness stood Creed Bonbright, his face death white, his eyes wide and fixed, the rain gemming his uncovered yellow hair. Judith of the Cumberlands
Then Veronica mar was the first show i came across that has all the thing i hope for in a show, wit, a little darkness, spunk, drama, just enough romance, and actually makes you think a little. VERONICA MARS OFFICIALLY CANCELLED | the TV addict
Under cover of darkness, and armed with sackfuls of rubbish, he wreaks havoc on the tidy town's effort, dumping in areas which have recently been cleaned up by local environmentalists.
Fine if you're just nipping in for a wazz; but anyone who comes in, drops their trousers and sits on the bog will be plunged into darkness before they've finished.
I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness.
The lights mysteriously failed, and we stumbled around in complete darkness.
A black, grungy trench coat hung loosely over his lanky frame, and his face was hidden in the darkness under a fedora hat.
In you also, my dear Paul, this century appears to have perfected astronomy, and in Florence it has recalled the platonic teaching from darkness into light. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
His motives are impure but his impact is the equivalent of warming sunshine after a bleak winter of bitter darkness.
I don't think the darkness relates to anything, it's just randomly selecting colors from a palette (in this case, the palette is all shades of gray). scifijazznik Word cloud of underwear-bomber's posts at Islamic forum Boing Boing
The lamp suddenly went out, leaving us in darkness.
The daylight hallucinations of Mr.Darko strike a chord with someone who has drank a skinful the night before and is shivering in the post booze darkness.
It is this darkness in the mix that gives this biennale its special character. Times, Sunday Times
Night fell in full force, and they were left in total darkness, the only light being from the moon above.
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
He was aswim in darkness, a thick, torpid presence that pressed up against him, obstructing sight and sound. Masked
A breastplate of darkness hid all the windows except one.
He turned round and walked off into the gathering darkness.
He swung off into the darkness, and a minute later Anthony heard his steps upon the metalling of the London road. Anthony Lyveden
He was a tall man to start with, but as an Orthodox priest, he wore a miter on his head, which must have made him appear like a giant as he emerged out of the darkness.
All windows had been nailed shut with boards, and the men especially complained about the darkness.
It overspilled them and spread across the sky in flaggy streams which came together and formed a growing blotch of darkness. The Waste Lands
Nor do we view the tiny flame of our own kindling (guarded in lasting purity as its light ever is) with greater awe than the celestial fires though they are often shrouded in darkness; nor do we deem it a greater marvel than the craters of Etna, whose eruptions throw up stones from its depths and great masses of rock, and at times pour forth rivers of that pure and unmixed subterranean fire. On the Sublime
Them keeps its monsters cloaked in shadowy darkness until the very end, which is probably why it is so chilling. Times, Sunday Times
Darkness descended too soon.
Grace looked lovely and composed; I sensed in her a desire to ameliorate the apparent darkness of my mood. SUMMER OF FEAR
A small party stole up on the bridge under cover of darkness.
He dove under and for about two seconds there was only darkness but his eyes adjusted to the dark water and then he saw Will flailing about a few feet below him.
Three dancers representing twilight, darkness and full - moon create a wonderland of charm.
He hurried into the hall, banging his shin against a chair in the darkness.
Trust no one because even your shadow will leave you in darkness.
Both have, however, one common ground on which they become indistinguishable, -- that region of the supernatural which is most primitive and most vague; and the closest relation between the savage and the civilized fancy may be found in the fears which we call childish, -- of darkness, shadows, and things dreamed. Two Years in the French West Indies
City of Darkness, City of Light is a notable achievement of historical fiction, though not a flawless one.
For if the dead appear to the living mainly in the hours of darkness, it seems not unnatural to imagine that the bright points of light which then bespangle the canopy of heaven are either the souls of the departed or fires kindled by them in their home aloft. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
A professional photographer had fused the lights, engulfing the entire house in darkness.
The disembodied faces which we see through the darkness are recognisably human, but also immobile, as if physically caught in a state of Beckettian stasis.
They slowly disrobe, so their fur can shine in the darkness.
Once darkness falls, the army cedes huge areas of the shanty towns to local gangs and mobsters.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu
Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.
They were travelling along the path through the forest, with some soldiers carrying a litter with a strange object on it, that glowed dimly red in the darkness.
He saw a flicker of light in the darkness.
Reality began to slide away outside, and a sphincter of darkness drew tight around the windows.
They lurk in the woods, they watch through the darkness from roadside verges and creep up on unsuspecting victims. Times, Sunday Times
Ed also wrote regularly for the series of one-shot mimeo magazines I'd begun producing, sub rosa and under cover of darkness, on a mimeograph machine I'd discovered in a broom closet at the University.
Democracy shines at its resplendent best in periods of the deepest darkness.
While it is true that, regardless of the conditions in our little room, darkness still exists wherever there is no light, and light still exists wherever there is no darkness, yet for this particular room _there is no darkness when the sun shines in_, and _there is no light when the room is filled with darkness_. The Mind and Its Education
The sky was a dome of darkness over their heads, the stars blotted out by a mass of thick, dark clouds.
The attack took place under cover of darkness.
A cool wind was rising, causing the leaves to whisper against each other, their glossy darkness shimmering.
In the gleaming darkness, the big metallic rod threw a menacing shadow across our window.
The city centre was plunged into darkness by the power cut.
Croft thought her eyes glittered with excitement, but, in the darkness of the carriage, he could not be sure.
Gradually, Fiona's eyes grew used to the darkness .
The family is the rain, take irritable, leaving Qingliang; affection is the wind, blowing the sorrow, stay happy; the family is the sun, taking away the darkness, leaving the light. The family is the most great, no matter you are happy, frustration, pain, loss, it will gently on your way, quietly with your life.
The newfound vents are home to a menagerie of creatures adapted to darkness and crushing water pressures, species that thrive despite waters volcanically heated to near boiling.

How To Use Darkness In A Sentence

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