How to Use darkness in a Sentence

darkness

noun

• But the Pauls’ upbeat, slapstick content hid a darkness at home.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
• There are a few jump scares, where CG blobs burst out of the darkness, but nothing is really scary.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
• But as darkness started to fall, millions of Cubans remained without power.
  — Andrea Rodríguez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
• Music may drown out the demonic chatter and help pass time while struggling with the persistent forces of darkness, but what is the actor actually listening to while the demon calls out his name?
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
• Banshees, werecoyotes, hellhounds, kitsunes, and other shapeshifting creatures are coming out of the darkness nearly six years after the series finale.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
• Some latitudes are not situated far enough north to experience continual total darkness.
  — Cecilia Blomdahl, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 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
• For example, some cave-dwelling spiders have evolved in a world of darkness, leading them to lose their eyes over time.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
• And for birds that frequently wind up on the menu of hawks, cats and other daytime predators, flying under the cover of darkness can be a lifesaver.
  — Sheila Yount, arkansasonline.com, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024