How to Use the dark in a Sentence

the dark

noun

• Out in the street the roadside lamps blazed in the dark.
  — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• The plane was parked in the dark next to a hangar with shades drawn.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• Light the way for yourself and those stuck in the dark.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
• Apps that keep you in the dark are part of the problem, too.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• His father would walk up and down among the trees in the dark.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 May 2024
• Here are five ways the state ethics laws keep Texans in the dark.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• The most painful part, many said, was being in the dark about their fate.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• Monsters in the dark, on large screens — that was enough for her.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• Freaky films are meant to be shared, in the dark, like campfire tales.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
• Some of these tools, experts say, are sold on the dark web.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• Nichols sits in the dark against the car, barely moving.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2023
• One of Mencke’s strangest videos starts with the creepy tones of ice cream truck music in the dark of night.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023
• Read Next Deep-sea creature — able to glow in the dark — caught by trawlers.
  — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• Wait about 30 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 19 Apr. 2024
• Or does the film just love an excuse to plunge us into the dark?
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• All of the indices are gold, as are the straight hands, and the lume finish glows brightly in the dark.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Colleges were left in the lurch too Students weren’t the only ones in the dark.
  — Cory Turner, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
• From the hiking trail to the backyard, a headlamp is a handy tool to find your way in the dark.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
• In the dark below, a great white shark hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023
• After the sun sets, sand constructions will glow in the dark and light up the night.
  — Jane Park, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2024
• Young Black women are often left in the dark, but this gives them a chance to glow in the dark.
  — Hanna Phifer, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Aug. 2023
• But other parents were in the dark about the use of the sleep-aid on their own children.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• Gaye said goodbye, and with a smile on his face, ran back across the street, into the dark of that house.
  — Matthew Allan, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
• Yet even Becker was in the dark as to where the owl remained hidden.
  — Martin Lerma, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
• Some of them even glow in the dark, which kids will find endlessly cool.
  — Kaitlin Stanford, Parents, 5 Oct. 2023
• Scorsese, on the other hand, has strained to drag him into the dark.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• White chocolate is often the dark horse of the chocolate world.
  — Sierra Guardiola, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2024
• But an infrared camera can pick up things from heat in the dark.
  — The Conversation, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
• National Review exists to hold out a lantern in the dark, to help our readers — and each other — to grope through the long night, and to find steadying wisdom of our forefathers.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 22 Nov. 2024
• Sparks has found videos on the dark web that show Flash Rob in the back of a delivery truck, which leads the two officers right to their suspect, shipping company employee Caleb Sandstrom.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024