darkness

Example Sentences

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In the darkness, the other kids were mostly miscellaneous blobs, but Jonah could pick out Katherine’s bright orange jacket in the middle of a huge cluster of kids.

From Literature

Nim squatted beside her, watching quietly in the darkness and wiping away sand from the turtle’s watery eyes, until the hole was just as deep and wide as it needed to be.

From Literature

As dark as the novel becomes, “the real darkness of the gulag there was so bleak that I had to cut it out,” the author has said.

From The Wall Street Journal

But she arrived "under cover of darkness" and was said to be none the worse for her journey.

From BBC

"The autumn and winter months tend to be the best times to see them as there are longer periods of darkness, but the weather also has to be good."

From BBC