keep dark

Example Sentences

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It’s a tuneless ditty that breaks down the oddball activities Bamford engages in to keep dark thoughts at bay.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2022

I tend to keep dark chocolate in my room and just have that when I’m back.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2020

With established friends, my habit was to keep dark marital details to myself.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

Firing a gun, he said, would disperse thunderstorms, and hanging the black-brown pelt of a seal at the garden gate would keep dark clouds away.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2013

"I told them we were with the Pentz boys," he said; "I thought it just as well to keep dark."

From The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin by Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody)