darkly

Example Sentences

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In “One Battle After Another,” his darkly comic action-thriller, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a former revolutionary who has spent years in hiding, raising his teenage daughter and trying to keep his past at bay.

From Los Angeles Times

“Everything—everything—about it is darkly hysterical,” she wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal

Wines from this grape usually skew tannic, even fierce, but the Niepoort version is the opposite: darkly fruity, slightly funky, fairly low in alcohol and very approachable.

From The Wall Street Journal

By recognizing the solo instrument as a conveyor of stock-taking, it colors darkly, evoking changing leaves and sunset.

From Los Angeles Times

“The wolf babies make twelve,” Madame Ionesco said darkly.

From Literature