darkly
Example Sentences
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Its baroque, acoustic sounds of a pastoral countryside in ye olde England mesh disturbingly well with softly sung, darkly opaque lyrics.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
The icy, darkly funny drama from Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev was nearly universally praised by critics at the festival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
I often joked darkly that I was a cat with only so many lives left.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
The New York Times raved about the darkly comic novel, “startling in its spare beauty,” and the quarter-life crisis treatment of a parent’s Alzheimer’s disease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
The thought of Hamlet, made desperate by his father’s ghost, passed over us as a hawk’s shadow flies darkly over an open field.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
