dark

Example Sentences

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The name actually became even more popular after "The Matrix" series character died in the the third movie, because parenting is DARK.

From Salon • May 14, 2019

“Just because it’s DARK, don’t be SCARED,” Singletary said.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2010

I thought you'd be TALL, and DARK, and HAUGHTY-LOOKING, like Montague Manderville in 'The Mystery of —— ', &c., &c.; and that sort of thing is apt to make a man feel himself an impostor.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Plaint DARK, deep, and cold the current flows Unto the sea where no wind blows, Seeking the land which no one knows.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

For it is observable, the more solemn is your background of DARK, the brighter is the play of all human genialities and coruscations on it,—of genial mirth especially, in the hour for mirth.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas