How to use "dark" in a sentence

You won't get back before dark,' she says.

The urine is now a dark orange colour

It's now a dark blue colour

Its force knocked me right out of the ship into the dark cold ocean.

It was dark and we knew that we had to stay in the water for the night

They took us through a long dark tunnel

They put us into a dark room, then closed the door behind us

One was tall with dark serious eyes

It was dark outside

The ocean became dark, and we continued to go further and further down

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice

In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory

Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

These dark days, my friends, will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves, to our fellow men.

Finally, to those nations who would make them-selves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

From the dirty streets, dark passages and slum houses of Whitechapel hundreds of people went to watch the fire

The streets were dark, gloomy and dangerous.

At nearly 3.40 in the morning it was dark.

She was about 1.58m tall, and had dark brown hair

She had dark brown hair and blue eyes

He had a dark complexion and was only a little taller than Annie

He wore a brown deerstalker hat and a dark coat

In Berner Street, almost opposite a school, were two big wooden gates which opened into Dutfield's Yard, a dark, narrow court between numbers 42 and 40

The passage into the yard was about five metres long and extremely dark

He was 1.70m tall, about 28 years old, and wore a deerstalker hat and dark clothes.

He was wearing a dark jacket and trousers, and a black cap with a peak

She had curly dark-brown hair, a pale complexion, and light grey eyes

She looked about forty, and had dark brown hair under her black bonnet

It was the same dark, silent square of 14 minutes before, when he had walked around it

In the case of Elizabeth Stride, from the descriptions by Constable Smith and Israel Schwartz we have a man between 28 - 30 years old, 1.65m to 1.70m tall, wearing dark clothes and a hat with a peak, or perhaps a deerstalker

Hutchinson said the man was aged about 34-35, just over 1.67m, with a pale face, dark eyes and hair and a small moustache

He was dressed like a gentleman in a long dark coat, dark hat, and boots with buttons

He wore dark clothes and a hat with one peak, or two like a deerstalker

He was secretive and often disappeared into dark little rented rooms around the poor quarters of London

His gloomy paintings of murder scenes were part of his vision as an artist: he liked to paint the dark, squalid side of life

But in Whitechapel the pubs were empty, and there were only policemen and vagabonds in the dark streets

Outside, it was growing dark and a cold wind was blowing from the mountains in the east

The night was not very dark; there was a full moon, hidden from time to time by large clouds moving quickly across the sky

The nearest water supply was half-way down the wooded hill on which Montfermeil stood, and Cosette hated fetching water, especially in the dark

He then carried Cosette, who was sleeping in his arms, along a dark corridor and up some stairs to the room he had rented since his escape from Montreuil

A streetlamp shone through the only window, lighting the dark interior of the room.

He became like a homeless dog, wandering the streets in a mood of dark despair

Thenardier seemed lost in his own dark thoughts

His dark clothes were almost invisible in the shadows, and his face shone softly in the fading light

As soon as the fighting started, Enjolras and several of his friends started to build a barricade outside the Corinth wine shop in the rue de la Chanvrerie, a small street surrounded by dark alleys in the market district of Paris

The soldiers and the rebels fired at each other at the same time, filling the air with thick clouds of dark smoke

Looking down, Marius saw a dark shape crawling along the ground towards him

She pressed her hand to her chest, from which blood was pouring like dark wine

With Marius in the back seat, Valjean and Javert side by side in the front, the carriage drove off quickly through the dark and strangely empty streets of Paris.

This is the first thing that I think when I wake, and I look around nervously, confused by the dark and by the thick fog which surrounds me.

It hurts to touch, and I shout in the fog, the sound lost in the dark of the night

It is a woman, and even in the dark and the fog I recognise her

"Catherine!" I shout into the dark, but there is no reply.

An ordinary face with small dark eyes and dirty brown hair

The fog surrounds me, and the dark is without end

Is it the man with the dark eyes and dirty brown hair? Does he know I am here? Good! If he looks for me, he is not with Catherine, I think

I am scared now because I know that I am near, and in the dark I begin to see large, grey stones standing like giants on the top of the hill

I expect him to have dark eyes and dirty hair, but he does not

"He matches the girl's description perfectly: dirty brown hair, small dark eyes

It is a large room with oak tables, a dark marble counter and expensive leather sofas

The type of husband who is happy to go out on the huge, horrible loch, in the dark, with his monster of a wife.

"Bloody idiot," he says to Sylvia as they slowly move away from the jetty onto the dark water

But Sylvia does not seem to hear and instead looks out at the dark loch.

Pain explodes at the back of his head, and his eyes go dark

With dark hair

He stands there like a scarecrow in the dark

The man's dark hair is wet from the rain outside, his skin pale and his eyes cold and dead

Inside the pub it is small and dark, and the barman is rude and suspicious, but Gerry has to agree that the view from the terrace is more than spectacular

"Well, nice to meet you both, but I need to get up to the farm before dark."

It is almost dark when Gerry reaches the farm

He thinks he sees a dark shape, but he does not shoot

He tries to see what the dark shape is, but the evening light is too weak

He raises his gun and is about to shoot when the dark shape moves again, and he laughs.

The Statue of Liberty is still visible in the distance, but they will soon be alone on the dark ocean.

Sometimes he looks across at the defendant's sister, a young woman with long, dark hair and sad eyes

So, you lie there, and, you let your eyes adjust to the dark

Or something closer? Something inside the house? The sound of breaking glass? The noise of the front door opening? A voice in the dark?

You try to see the clock in the dark, but it is impossible, and you think that it must be somewhere between four and six o'clock: the darkest hours of the night when even the lively and vibrant city of Manchester sleeps.

All silent and all dark.

You quietly open it, just a little, just so you can see the dark landing.

Then, standing right in front of you in the dark, you see the burglar, and he looks back at you and shouts

The same cold grey walls, the same uncomfortable heavy pews and the same weak candles to light up the dark room.

Barry tries to see the face through the grille, but there is only a dark shape.

Barry nods in the dark space

And now Brandon is alone, and he feels tired and lost, and he knows that the man in the dark winter coat and black hat is near

"Listen to me," his brother said at a dark table in the corner at the Lake Louise Inn

And the man in the dark winter coat and black hat, who appeared from behind the trees.

"But it wasn't," a voice replies, and Brandon turns and sees the dark coat, only this time there is no black hat: just long, red hair

And somewhere in the dark Mr Fletcher stops hammering his foot against the new wall

And they put him behind it, in a deep dark corner where no one could see him and the light disappeared as they put the last bricks in place

And for a while he thought that he would die in the deep dark corner behind the wall

No, you don't need that today," he repeats, and he takes the mp3 player from the boy's hands, and he tries to avoid the angry look in the boy's dark eyes.

And dark hair too, just like his mother's.

He always wears a grey suit, he always walks in a slow manner, and his eyes are always cold and dark.

She hears the train in the dark tunnel and tells herself to wake up and to focus for another forty minutes.

The train speeds out of the tunnel, and she enjoys the feeling of the wind in her dark brown hair

And she dreams about dark tunnels and strange men watching her.

She'd turned around quickly and seen a boy: about her age but a little taller, with black hair and dark, smiling eyes..

When Sala and Cham left the simulator center, it was dark, and still raining

It was made of clear plastic, and inside, there was some kind of small dark red fruit

Now she spent as much time in the garden as possible, even when it was dark or raining

Down a dark stairway with rough, slippery steps

It rained constantly, but Sala didn't really care; the dark, miserable skies matched her mood

People were coming and going from the main entrance, like last time, but the narrow passageway down the side looked dark and empty

He was a dark-haired, handsome man

His face was pale and his dark eyes had a sad, lost look

There was no welcome in her dark eyes

As I thanked her, Mrs Danvers looked at me with her hard, dark eyes

Her dark eyes watched me as I walked slowly up the stairs towards her

All was quiet and dark

The trees grew very close together over our heads and it was very dark

There were no dark trees in this valley, no thick bushes

There was something frightening about that small, dark room

The path was steep and the trees were thick, and dark

His eyes had a dark, lost look

She had a cloud of dark hair

I cut the string excitedly and tore off the dark brown paper

His face was dark with anger and his voice was hard.

'She was tall and dark

Someone tall and dark, who watched and listened.

Everything was dark

The grey walls of Manderley looked heavy and dark.

Then suddenly, the sky was dark too

I went through the house, along the dark silent corridor of the west wing to Rebecca's room

There were dark shadows on her white face.

It was dark...' He stopped

'There was no moon and it was very dark,' Maxim went on

'Was she tall and dark, a beautiful woman?' Colonel Julyan asked.

It was dark now and I fell asleep almost at once

The dark trees were all round me

The gardens had gone and the dark woods came up to the walls of the house.

The sky was dark now and there were no stars.

He had thick dark hair like Danny's, a nose that resembled Danny's, and a rather delicate jawline like Danny's too.

Danny's cries and her response became increasingly shrill and desperate, for they knew that they must reach each other before nightfall or be lost forever; in the oncoming night, something waited for Danny, something fearsome that would seize him if he was alone after dark

She closed her eyes and imagined herself lying beside him, reaching for him in the dark, touching, touching, moving against him, into the shelter of his arms

In one of her terrible seizures of grief, in a moment of crazy dark despair, had she come into this room and unknowingly printed those words on Danny's chalkboard?

Danny, of course, had been writing about something else, and the dark interpretation that could be drawn from those two words now, after his death, was just a macabre coincidence.

A lavish use of blue velvet, dark leather, crystal chandeliers, and thick blue carpet, plus an excellent sense of dramatic lighting, gave the mammoth chamber some of the feeling of a cozy cabaret in spite of its size.

His dark eyes were deeply set, quick, marked by intelligence and amusement.

In this one, he was ten or eleven years old, a sweet brown-haired boy with dark eyes and a lovely smile.

She would have been lovely enough if her eyes had been dark, in harmony with the shade of her hair and skin, but they were crystalline blue

Sitting in the dark theater, he smiled, not at the comic magician who was performing in front of the closed stage curtains, but at his own sudden, youthful exuberance.

A wave of frigid air washed out of the dark room, into the hallway.

The sliding closet doors began to move on their runners, and Vivienne Neddler had the feeling that some awful thing was going to come out of the dark space, its eyes as red as blood and its razor-sharp teeth gnashing

He was wearing a beige suit, a dark brown shirt, and a beige-patterned tie

His eyes were dark with rage

She stared at what the computer had printed, and fear welled in her - dark, cold, oily fear.

The monitor went dark.

It remained dark.

Elliot cocked his head, studied her with those probing, dark eyes

No skulking about in dark alleys."

But she and Elliot left the outer office, flicking off the lights as they went, and the computer remained dark and silent.

She saw a longing and a need in his dark eyes, a powerful wanting that was only partly sex, and she knew the same need to be loved and valued must be in her eyes for him to see.

He had no rational reason to entertain such dark thoughts

Harry Kennebeck had a poker face that also looked like a poker - hard and plain, dark - and it was difficult to tell if he had any sympathy whatsoever for Tina's plight

He wore a dark blue suit, white shirt, and blue tie, and he carried a physician's bag

In a day or two, someone would find him out there, his face blue-green-gray, his tongue dark and lolling, his eyes bulging in their sockets as he stared through the windshield as if on a drive to Hell

He was climbing into a dark-green, unmarked Chevy sedan

But she stared into his dark, expressive eyes, and she knew that he'd meant every word he said.

With more than a million full-time residents, with more than twenty million tourists a year, and with a vast desert on which to sprawl, Vegas offered thousands of dark, quiet corners where two people on the run could safely stop to catch their breath and settle upon a course of action.

Elliot stared at her with consternation and with pity, his dark eyes reflecting a distant light

They stared out at the dark parking lot and at the fenced storage yard full of fifty-gallon drums that lay beyond the lot

"He'd have had to take off in the dark," Alexander said

He wished that they weren't wearing such dark clothes

As they swung into another curve, Elliot wrestled with the wheel, and Tina was acutely aware that a great dark void lay beyond the shoulder of the road

Who were these two people? Why weren't they hiding in a dark corner somewhere? Why weren't they scared witless? Christina Evans was only an ordinary woman

But they were sunken, ringed by unhealthy dark skin, which was not the way they had always been

"And there's always the possibility I'll misjudge the terrain in the dark and ram us right into the side of a hill."

She held Danny close, and she stared into his dark eyes, and she wasn't able to comfort herself with those words from the Bible

The police said that he was walking home in the dark when he fell down a hill

'I'll do everything you say.' He went out into the dark night, the wind and the rain.

Having carefully closed the door, he took me to the other end of the room and gave me a pair of very dark sun glasses

I put on my dark glasses again and saw and felt the ball of fire.

If you cannot find the dark glasses, turn away from the machine and put your hands over your eyes.

He has dark hair, his eyes are bright blue, and he can tell a good story

There was a pool of some dark liquid by his head, and it was dripping on to the floor

But to my surprise, she continued along to the end of the passage, then up a narrow staircase and into a large dark room under the roof

Two large dark- colored eyes were looking at me steadily

Slowly a dark shape rose out of the pit and a beam of light seemed to flash out from it.

All along a curving line beyond the pit, the dark ground smoked

But it passed and let me live, and left the night around me suddenly dark and unfamiliar

I realized that I was helpless and alone on this dark common

The fear I felt was panic - terror not only of the Martians but of the dark and stillness all around me

Under the railway bridge I found a group of soldiers - engineers, I think, men wearing small round caps, dirty red jackets and dark trousers

The night was unexpectedly dark, and it was as hot and airless as the day

After it got dark, the soldier finally ran and managed to get across the railway.

Towards Sunbury there was something dark, like a hill, hiding our view of the country further away

There were shouts of fear, the guns suddenly left behind, men on the ground struggling to breathe, and the fast spreading of the dark smoke - a silent black cloud hiding its dead.

We sat in the kitchen in the dark and had a meal of cold food, and just before midnight there was a blinding flash of green light followed by the loudest bang I have ever heard

This face had no nose - I do not think they had any sense of smell - but it had a pair of very large, dark eyes, and just beneath these a kind of v-shaped mouth

Suddenly, I heard a noise outside and the hole in the wall became dark

Then, through a sort of glass plate, I saw the large, dark eyes of a Martian, and one of its tentacles appeared, moving in through the hole.

His black hair fell over his eyes, and his face was dark and dirty and thin, so at first I did not recognize him.

I awoke to find that sad howling still in my ears: 'Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla,' It was now getting dark, and after I had found some bread and cheese in the bar I walked on through the silent squares to Baker Street and so came at last to Regents Park

My hosts tried to change my mind but at last, promising faithfully to return to them, I went out again into the streets that had lately been so dark and strange and empty.

Seven months ago, when these planets were close together, faint, dark marks appeared on photographs which suggested that a cylinder had been fired from one to the other.

She is very dark, but she is my dear little girl.' When the little girl heard these words, she ran to her mother.

'Soon it is dark

It was rainy and dark

Would it really be so dangerous? Doesn't one government car look like another - the hugeness of it, the dark glass, the driver in uniform? She can already see herself stepping out of the car to greet the other girls, who look at her with eyes like knives

First I noticed that she was dark, then that she was young, and finally (to my great surprise) that she was rather ugly! She had a large, strong masculine jaw

Laura and I are very different: she's blonde, and I'm dark; she's beautiful, and I'm ugly; she's rich, and I'm poor

I find it dark and depressing

He held her arm so tightly that he left dark bruises on her white skin

He had probably taken a candle with him into the vestry, because by then it was dark

He has black hair and dark eyes

Lolita is a lovely girl with long black hair and dark eyes.

The night is dark