dark
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Members were also due to be there when it started to get dark to view the Perseids meteor shower, they added.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
However, as it is not a total eclipse, the sky will not become completely dark.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
At midnight, musician Melanie Cebula played her tune “Purr-fect Lullaby,” tapping on her steel hand pan as soothing notes filled the dark room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
A December day in Stalingrad in 1942: “The dark clouds shed their burden, then brightened and climbed higher into the sky. The fog froze, settling as a thick white powder on army telegraph cables.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Tante Jans was Mother’s older sister and her presence lingered in the massive dark furniture she had left behind her.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"It will be darker and it will feel a little eerie but we're not going to have the sky go completely dark," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, the past few weeks have produced a darker sort of Move 37.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
"Not a single blow is random," he explains as a trio of craftsmen land expert strikes that create the darker more complex tones so prized by jazz drummers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
The darker strains in his comedies have been drawn out by directors eager to show there’s more to the playwright than his drawing room panache.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The sun fell behind the sandstone rocks and the shadows grew darker.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
The community is seen rallying around him in his darkest hours—a beautiful display that is mirrored in the way that Richmond itself has welcomed “Ted Lasso” fans, seemingly with open arms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
No one exemplifies this generous worldview better than Lotta, who turns out not to be the villain of May’s darkest imaginings but a complicated, compassionate and rather philosophical human being.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The South Downs National Park is considered one of the best places in the region for glow worms because it contains some of the country's darkest skies.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
His best work tunneled into life’s darkest spaces to excavate ideas about our fears and obsessions, often reflected through dazzling practical effects that matched the naturalism of his greatest feature: a singularly expressive, malleable face.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
He stood by the grave at the end of the world, and in that place he invoked the darkest of runes and called on old powers, long forgotten.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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