dusky

The dusky shark, which can be found in the Long Island Sound, has been recently documented eating seals near Nantucket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

What I was really craving, I realized, was the dusky, spiced intensity of another fall icon: apple butter.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025

Preshow, the view from one’s seat is of being in a massive old opera house with dusky green drapes flanked by rows of orchestra seats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025

Her legs are rosy orange and dusky purple, punctuated by small bumps.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

As the observation train drew back upriver again for the start of the varsity race, the atmosphere grew electric, the dusky sky crackling with static.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

They’re a scene-stealing duo whose comic relief goes a long way toward softening some of the movie’s harsher angles and brightening some of its duskier corners.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2019

It was growing late; the evening air grew more motionless and cool; the russet gold of the sunshine mottled only the hill-tops now; in the valleys there was a duskier brown, deepening every moment.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various

A moving shadow duskier than the shadows themselves came through the door and hovered over Osterbridge Hawsey.

From Mr. Wicker's Window by Lynd Ward

The ocean ahead and around was the duskier for the spectral illumination of the near foam and the glimmer of the ice-coated ship.

From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell

His face was deeply bronzed, but a glow of sanguine red shone through its duskier coloring.

From Ranching for Sylvia by Harold Bindloss

The people around Michèle hide their duskiest anxieties deep inside, while all her darkness shimmers on the surface.

From Time ● Nov. 29, 2

Flowers: white water-lilies, camellias, or the darkest, duskiest, damask roses, and none of these in such profusion as to appear conspicuous.-402-

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke

Stockport is renowned throughout the entire district as one of the duskiest, smokiest holes, and looks, indeed, especially when viewed from the viaduct, excessively repellent. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley

But just within the archway, in its duskiest corner, there sat all day a living picture, a dark and handsome woman, apparently p. 289thirty years old, who was unveiled. 

From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

Her the close bewildering greenery Darkens with its duskiest green, - Him each little leaflet welcomes, Flushing with an orient sheen.

From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith