grow dark
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In the 1800s, the sky would routinely grow dark when large numbers of the now-extinct passenger pigeon passed through this popular roosting area in northwestern, Pennsylvania.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 20, 2023
It began to grow dark, and suddenly realizing the situation she got up hurriedly and went about closing windows and doors.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
What tells some skin cells to grow dark hair and others lighter hair?
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
In the evening, as it began to grow dark outside, lights on the porches came on.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
There’d be a cool spell come sundown, when the mosquitoes would fly in so thick that the air would grow dark with them, then at nightfall, it turned so cold that we usually needed blankets.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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