dusky

Example Sentences

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Smoking in a raffish suit like a film noir baddie with a shock of red hair ready to torch the world, Noble’s Richard employs a dusky, ironic voice to flaying effect.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Even so, the kaleidoscope of tales and vignettes, and the blurring of the banal with the macabre, produces a dusky, dreamlike atmosphere that envelopes one’s thoughts like a fine mist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

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

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2025

Her legs are rosy orange and dusky purple, punctuated by small bumps.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

The head moved slowly, taking in the dusky lengths of the wood ride in both directions, and then fixed them once more with its fierce, terrible stare.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams