dark
Example Sentences
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Without sacrificing the book’s dark humor, Burke doesn’t shy away from the repercussions of Natalie’s choices, and scenes with her children are the most frustrating and emotionally resonant.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
This flexibility makes it useful not just for studying quantum gravity, but also for investigating stochastic gravitational waves, possible dark matter signals, and certain types of experimental noise.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
The rest of the time it was completely dark.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
During a month of rehearsals before opening night, Mykkanen made exercising and walking through Central Park part of his ritual to escape from the opera's dark themes.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Suddenly in the dark something wet and sticky coiled around my face.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
