How to Use darkness in a Sentence

darkness

noun

• Meanwhile, place bread in toaster and toast to desired darkness.
  — Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024
• Back in her introductory scene, though, Sofia is a beacon in the darkness.
  — Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
• Highway 59 from Watts to West Siloam Springs was shrouded in darkness after the storm passed.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• Finally, with a twist of the ambient magnetic field, tiny tornadoes swirl into existence, pirouetting in the darkness.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
• Nighttime tornadoes are more than twice as deadly as daytime ones, research shows, since nocturnal tornadoes are difficult to spot in the darkness and those sleeping may not be aware danger is near.
  — Robert Shackelford, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
• The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, darkness, storms, and death and was widely regarded as the most powerful force of evil in Egyptian theology.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• Mills doesn't shy away from the challenges, the darkness and the tears.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• Up that high, the curvature of the earth and the darkness of space can be seen with the naked eye.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
• That’s why Jemma’s email was like a light in the darkness.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• You’re allowed to shine brighter than the darkness in your mind.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2024
• For the actors, Lachman chose to keep the darkness in their eyes.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• Out of darkness, can come light, so let that light shine bright.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
• There was a small hole that vanished into darkness at the base of the wall.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
• My eyes hadn’t had time to adjust to the darkness, to take in the details or design of the room.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Taurus April 20-May 20 Your friends can bring you out of the darkness right now.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
• Give him every bit of blame for the decade-thick darkness that buried the Trojans.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• The moon peeks out from the branches and emanates a halo of light, which pierces through the darkness.
  — Jane Park, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
• Part of that darkness comes from the heaviness of fresh grief.
  — Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• The embrace of the darkness is an explicit part of that world.
  — Clifford Prince King, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• After a body thumped against the floor in the darkness, Fromming relit the lamp and surveyed the scene.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
• In the darkness, the parade of people began their march to the border.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Air raid alarms sounded for more than three hours in the pre-dawn darkness across Kyiv.
  — Cherie Saunders, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
• Then, this Sweeney, so cloaked in darkness, inverts itself in the blaze of Mrs. Lovett’s oven.
  — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
• And now both girls have advice for other teens searching for the tools to crawl out of the darkness.
  — The Enquirer, 1 June 2023
• Because there is a lot of darkness out there, but there's a lot of beauty.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
• The week before last was a hard one for my husband and me, with a feeling of darkness around us.
  — Elizabeth L. Greene, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• As the girls grew used to the dark, each could make out the other’s shape; the darkness anyhow seemed thinner up here at the top of the building.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
• Cats were patrolling the darkness between pools of street light.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
• The brain responds to darkness—the sun going down—by preparing the body for sleep.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
• Often the low sun touched only the tops of trees, or the ends of branches, while sections of the same tree seemed sunk in darkness.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024