keep dark

Example Sentences

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It’s a tuneless ditty that breaks down the oddball activities Bamford engages in to keep dark thoughts at bay.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2022

I tend to keep dark chocolate in my room and just have that when I’m back.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2020

With established friends, my habit was to keep dark marital details to myself.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

Firing a gun, he said, would disperse thunderstorms, and hanging the black-brown pelt of a seal at the garden gate would keep dark clouds away.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2013

She'd promised she wouldn't, but jess fo' she died she said agen to me, 'I tole him I'd keep dark till he come for me, but it's all right.

From The Cromptons by Holmes, Mary Jane