How to use darken in a sentence

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• Jason only hit him once, but he really darkened his daylights.From the entry daylights
• I felt my way through the darkened room.From the entry feel
• I backed edgingly out of the darkened room.From the entry edgingly
• In my darkened bedroom as a child, a trick of the light made my chair look like a crouching monster.From the entry trick of the light
• "It’s a wicked view," he said of the darkened moon with deep space behind it.2026 April 6, Mary Kekatos, Julia Jacobo, Leah Sarnoff, Ivan Pereira, quoting Victor Glover, “'Absolutely spectacular, surreal'…. From the entry wicked
• In front of the darkened electric fire stood a wooden clothes horse draped with tights and underwear.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279. From the entry clotheshorse
• Our only solution was to use blinds, which left the yurt darkened.2013, Robert F. Lee, How to Build a (Semi) Solid Wall Yurt, [United States]: Published by CreateSpace for Robert F. Lee, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry yurt
• Photochromatic (also called photochromic) glasses are those glasses that darken in sunlight.2013, Srikumar Koyikkal, “Inorganic Chemicals”, in Chemical Process Technology and Simulation, New Delhi: Asoke K. Ghosh, PHI Learning…. From the entry cooling glasses
• The afternoon darkened and the spare stone towers of the villages paled in the rainlight.2012, David Mason, News from The Village: Aegean Friends. From the entry rainlight
• At this hour, just before dawn, another nigrous presence came hovering over him to darken his face.2008, Glen Craney, The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars and the Lost Teachings of Christ. From the entry nigrous
• The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void. From the entry bot
• As the valleys darkened, the caps of the hills were swashed in variant hues.2003, Walter Schenck, Shiloh, Unveiled, page 660. From the entry swash
• Stands of ciboa darken the valleys, and massive tabbas, wide around as Big Ben, transfix the hilltops.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 94. From the entry ciboa
• At eleven the room darkened, the moon having climbed behind a tree.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry obscuration
• He went through the darkened parlor with its low early evening spatter of conversation.1952, John Steinbeck, chapter 48, in East of Eden, New York: Penguin, published 1981, page 606. From the entry spatter
• This is especially true of blues and reds because the oil glazes darken or fade.1939, John Sloan, “Painting”, in Gist of Art, New York, N.Y.: American Artists Group, Inc., page 136. From the entry underpaint
• We have a corresponding increase in acid value, drying time misability with progressive darkening.1935, Paint and Varnish Production Manager - Volumes 12-13, page 37. From the entry misability
• Beyond them lay the length of the Turkey carpet darkening away under the long table.1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 201. From the entry Turkey carpet
• Hazel Strong was looking from her darkened port across the dark sea.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 105. From the entry man overboard
• Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC. From the entry straightway
• She darkens up her eyebrows with it and then runs a tube of pink lipstick over her mouth.2021 December 27, Linda MorningStar, Destiny's Wavering Road, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry lipstick
• There are colossally tall darkened figures stalking down the streets, so dark and slender that Wheeler actually fails to notice them.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry grotesque
• A thick blanket of dust that was thrown up darkened the globe, affecting plants and other photosynthesising life.2014 July 28, Ian Sample, The Guardian. From the entry photosynthesizing
• This technical oil is dark colored; even after distillation it darkens again, supposedly due to its cardol content.2013, Hans Dressler, Resorcinol: Its Uses and Derivatives, page 410. From the entry cardol
• Time was, I could with my life—" His eyes darkened.2010, Yxta Maya Murray, The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry diego
• Illuminated by a congruently curved overhead light in the darkened gallery, it sparkles like an oversized necklace of semi-precious stones.2010 October 29, Ken Johnson, “William Lamson: ‘A Line Describing the Sun’”, in The New York Times. From the entry congruently
• Our numbers will darken the sky of every world.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Virmire. From the entry doom
• Reg’s gaff totally melts away, like sticky spoodge, and the room spins out and darkens until it’s disappeared.2008, Mark Wernham, Martin Martin's on the Other Side, Jonathan Cape, page 261. From the entry spoodge
• Burley shows came to Times Square after vaudeville started its decline, and took over many of the darkened old theaters.2004 August 12, Vicki Gold Levi, Steven Heller, Times Square Style: Graphics from the Great White Way, Princeton Architectural Press, →ISBN. From the entry burley
• The gills of young Sulphur Tufts are greenish yellow to sulphur yellow, darkening to purplish brown in age.1992, David W. Fischer, Alan E. Bessette, Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide, page 81. From the entry sulphur tuft
• Data in the column headed "Underhead" are demerit ratings related to the degree of darkening of the underhead.1973, Maurice William Ranney, Lubricant Additives - Issue 2, page 50. From the entry underhead
• For darkening any print area larger than a spot, mediobrome is the best friend of the bungling tyro with ten thumbs!1949, PSA Journal, volume 15, page 604. From the entry mediobrome
• The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry branch

Meaning of darken

1. verb To make dark or darker by reducing light.
2. verb To become dark or darker (having less light).
3. verb To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).

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Questions about darken in a sentence

How do you use darken in a sentence?

Darken is used as a verb. For example: “Jason only hit him once, but he really darkened his daylights.”

What is a short sentence with darken?

“It was rapidly darkening.”

What does darken mean?

Darken means to make dark or darker by reducing light.