dark
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He shows a picture of him sitting on the roof of his house in the dark.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
And there are even others that elaborate the perspective of the worms, who find themselves in the unnervingly dark setting of Gelsomina’s stomach and are struggling to grasp their proper place in the universe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The silver permanently turns the decayed part of the tooth dark.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
“It has a lot of whimsy in it, but it also has a balance of light and dark in terms of how it makes you feel.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Ignoring me, Sela sat next to Auntie, a curtain of dark hair glowing red around the edges briefly blocking her face as she set her canvas bag on the ground.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The darker strains in his comedies have been drawn out by directors eager to show there’s more to the playwright than his drawing room panache.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
But it is here, in these darker and less yielding works, that his imagination is most fully itself: less certain and considerably more interesting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Yet fossils from the extinction interval became progressively darker, eventually reaching an extremely dark brown.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
His covert operation to sneak within the city walls was a betrayal of bedrock beliefs about honor and civility, a shameful act that brought humanity into a darker age.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
His smile falls, and the sky goes even darker.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
"They were, by far, some of the darkest days of my life."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Burrell’s family said in the statement announcing the antiques enthusiast’s death that the cancer community provided “so much comfort and strength to her in her darkest moments.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
"We remain deeply grateful for the support, prayers, and kindness we have received. This outpouring has sustained us during the darkest days of our lives."
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
These were the darkest days of the Revolutionary War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
I can’t really recall what the packing-up was like or if I even contributed, but we were gone from the clearing and into the darkest part of the woods before the sun was fully up.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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