How to Use dark age in a Sentence
dark age
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And that wasn’t the dark ages; that edition came out in 2005.
—Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
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The dark age ideas of work as drudgery and sweat equity no longer hold up.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
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The Mad Max-style trailer reveals the end of the world and commencement of a new dark age.
—Deirdre Durkan, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018
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During the early part of those dark ages, Dad carried the load.
—Kevin Helliker, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
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If the Oscars want to come out of the dark ages, the Academy will forward her next call.
—Bridget Read, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2019
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If that isn’t a call for a return to the dark ages—literally—what is?
—George Melloan, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
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The dark ages of the '70s - when goaltenders were typically left to sort things out on their own - this is not.
—USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
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The worst part about it: There was reason to believe this season wouldn’t be like those in the franchise’s dark ages.
—Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2018
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Such a collapse would usher in nothing less than a new dark age.
—James Kirchick, Slate Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
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Bringing the women back to the Tour de France was an opportunity to rescue the sport from the dark ages.
—Kathryn Bertine, Outside Online, 22 Aug. 2019
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Kabul could fall to the Taliban, ushering a new dark age for Afghan women and girls.
—Stephen Collinson and Maeve Reston, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
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From this perspective, Jamal’s murder shows how our part of the world—the Middle East—is being left in the dark ages.
—Hatice Cengiz, Time, 2 Oct. 2019
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It’s that his desolation of Auburn football is the beginning of some dark age for the Tigers.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 Oct. 2022
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Punishing this whistleblower for doing his job sends us back to the dark ages.
—Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Houston Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2020
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The chance that our global civilization shall suffer a new dark age from a Miyake event seems remote for the time being.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2021
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Twenty years into the new century, the world is gripped with worry over how to deal with a deadly pandemic out of the dark ages.
—Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2020
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Cosmologists call this period the dark ages (see ‘An Earth’s-eye view of the early Universe’).
—Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2019
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These events could affect an area up to the size of the United States for days or perhaps months—a terrifying prospect, but thankfully far from the global dark age of the show.
—Kate Greene, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
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Our votes in this election will determine if our country survives or slides into a new dark age.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2020
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Slavery was present in European as well as in the Islamic Ottoman empires throughout the dark ages.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2019
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The absorption signal disappeared, and the dark ages ended.
—Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
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In the dark ages when Fey's film first came out, landlines ruled and three-way calling was the latest technological advancement for mean girls.
—Erika Milvy, latimes.com, 2 May 2018
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There is no denying that without Dr. Maurice Coyle, Alaska might very well be in the dark ages of radiography.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Aug. 2017
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The Apple TV+ series Foundation tells the story of a group of scientists trying to shepherd the galaxy through a centuries-long dark age.
—Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2022
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The tradition dates back to the darker ages of British politics, when the speaker acted as a messenger between Parliament and the monarch.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 4 Nov. 2019
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In the pre-Internet dark age, the company was the unrivaled supermarket of toys, the arbiter of fads and tastes that shaped the entire industry.
—Fortune, 16 Mar. 2018
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Afghans are once again sliding into a new dark age of repression and persecution of women.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
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Lukas Feigelfeld’s arty folk-horror debut is a grim fairy tale about women shunned and vilified as witches during Europe’s dark ages.
—Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2017
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In the dark ages of the 1970s, San Francisco once had to land in Denver after losing to the Dolphins and five players were hospitalized for dehydration.
—Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2019
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The Middle Ages are misremembered as a dark age of torture and religious fanaticism.
—Eric Weiskott, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
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