dusky

Natasha Katz provides the ballet’s choreographic episodes with lighting that casts them in a rainbow of dusky hues, some evoking archaic temple architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Green has a toothier texture and fresher flavor; red is saucier with dusky, earthen undertones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Three of her dusky, jazz-infused soul songs are in Spotify's Viral Top 50.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025

The old man’s cough rose querulously out of the dusky dawn and he said to her, “Take to my father first a bowl of hot water for his lungs.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

Redder and duskier grew the light of the setting sun, till it saddened into the mists of night.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

It grew duskier, and the rose-tint of the sun faded into purple gloom as pale night drew near--four hours of rest that was neither darkness nor day.

From The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood

In lieu of dusky billiard-rooms, the resort of duskier sharpers, there are magnificent saloons, containing five, ten, and sometimes twenty billiard-tables.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various

The panelled wainscot is covered with dingy paint and acquires a duskier hue from the deep shadow into which the Province House is thrown by the brick block that shuts it in from Washington street.

From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

From Time ● Nov. 29, 2

Then with a laugh at her own childishness she "touched wood" to propitiate the jealous fates and ran down stairs to hide herself in the duskiest corner of the veranda.

From Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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

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

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