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Example sentences for: darken

How can you use “darken” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But in general we seem to lighten up meanings rather than darken them.
In the latter, the director used farce not to lighten the drama but to darken it, so that the slapstick debacles seemed to spring from the hero's roiling unconscious.
It is always such a pleasure--after the fuss with the boat, the baggage, and the groceries--to walk the porches, and to watch the sun set behind the lighthouse to the west, the moon rise from the tinted sea to the east, the water darken and cap with white in the south.
-- Arno Mayer, author of Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?
The pay is low to nonexistent, the number of scowls from others enough to darken any day.