DARKNESS in a Sentence

Learn DARKNESS from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For DARKNESS, below is one of 407 sentences:
As he lay there, the window-pane that faced him, growing gradually lighter, inlaid upon the darkness a square of moon-suffused sky.

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 Meanings and Examples of DARKNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
darkness
 n.  an unilluminated area, an unenlightened state
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Seen thus, from the pure and frosty darkness in which he stood, it seemed to be seething in a mist of heat.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  As he stood in the darkness outside the church these memories came back with the poignancy of vanished things.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
3  She stopped short, and he felt, in the darkness, that her face was lifted quickly to his.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
4  They strained their eyes at each other through the icy darkness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
5  He stood in the darkness expecting to hear her step.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  His wife looked so hard and lonely, sitting there in the darkness with such thoughts.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  It was as senseless and savage as a physical fight between two enemies in the darkness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  As he lay there, the window-pane that faced him, growing gradually lighter, inlaid upon the darkness a square of moon-suffused sky.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  They had reached the point where the road dipped to the hollow by Ethan's mill and as they descended the darkness descended with them, dropping down like a black veil from the heavy hemlock boughs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  He got his face down close to hers, with his ear to her mouth, and in the darkness he saw her eyes open and heard her say his name.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Then there was an excited babble of negro voices in the darkness of the yard and high-pitched negro laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Pray give me only one moment more of your precious time before you cast me into darkness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  Melanie and Pittypat had gone to sleep hours before, but Scarlett lay awake in the warm darkness, her heart heavy and frightened in her breast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  Prissy and Wade scurried for the cellar and crouched in the cobwebbed darkness, Prissy squalling at the top of her voice and Wade sobbing and hiccoughing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  Always, faceless soldiers stood on the dark porch and from the darkness many different voices spoke to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (197 in 14 pages)
16  A cigarette end glowed red in the darkness.
17  As darkness closed on them, they decided to return home.
18  The street slept in darkness, aside from the occasional twinkling of lights from two or three windows.
19  The lamp suddenly went out, leaving us in darkness.
20  All of us see the darkness begin to enclose him.
21  The word literally translates to 'dispeller of darkness,' or 'one who brings light.'
22  It is a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.
23  I undressed hastily, and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib.
24  The ship tried to slip away in the darkness.
25  The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.
26  The night promised to be a fair one; so Tom went home with the understanding that if a considerable degree of darkness came on, Huck was to come and "maow," whereupon he would slip out and try the keys.
27  Accompanying the darkness, a stillness is coming to envelop the city.
28  A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
29  The flame above the oil well flared into the dark sky.
30  The investigators admit that they are completely in the dark about the killing.