How to use "darkness" in a sentence

There is only silence, darkness and cold.

2.00 am The darkness seems unreal

The men looked at the woman, but in the darkness they did not know if she was drunk or dead

Mr Diemschutz looked down to his right and in the pitch darkness he could just see a shape on the ground

Then he hid in the darkness of Dutfield's Yard, and when Mr Diemschutz ran into the club, he quickly escaped

Unable to return to sleep, he gazed into the darkness, thinking about the past twenty years

He looked around but could see nothing in the darkness - just a purple mist rising slowly from the fields.

She had soon left the colourful lights and the happy laughter of the village behind her, and was running down the hill into the frightening darkness of the wood

In the bright mist that clouded his vision, Marius could hardly see the features of the sweet face that had lit his life for six months and had then disappeared, filling his life with darkness

The poor condition of his clothes could not be seen in the half-darkness of the room

This would be his last brief happiness; after that, there would be only darkness.

Within seconds, the soldiers had left the barricade, leaving their dead and wounded behind, and were running into the darkness at the far end of the street.

He stared at the blotter, coldness in his eyes, the darkness of the deepest night in his heart

Valjean leapt forward and, using all his strength, he moved the stones and wood, opened the grille, lifted Marius on to his shoulders and climbed down into the darkness.

Ahead of him lay total darkness, but he had to go on

With Marius lying across his shoulders, Valjean walked forward into the darkness, feeling his way along the wet, slippery walls with his hands

He walked in total darkness, the silence broken occasionally by the thunder of gun carriages and horses racing along the streets of Paris far above his head.

Finally, the group of men moved off along another passage, and Valjean was left in total darkness once again.

When Valjean was outside, Thenardier closed the gate behind him and disappeared, like a rat, into the darkness of the sewers.

Sylvia and the boat are gone, and the half-light is complete darkness now

"Help me!" he shouts into the darkness

Something that makes the hairs on your arms stand up and that makes your eyes search the horrible, complete darkness of your room.

So you do not move, but you let your eyes adjust, and soon the complete darkness is not so complete

But the sun is gone now, and darkness is all around him

The lights had been turned off; soon she was in complete darkness, so she turned on the lights on her virtual interface to guide her

Suddenly the sky was shattered by lightning, then by a hard clap of thunder, and the night imploded into a deeper darkness, into infinite and perfect blackness.

She was convinced that the man in black was in her bedroom, standing silently in the darkness, grinning

The returning darkness was threatening.

The vague, shadowy shape of her under the covers, in the darkness, was a talisman to ward off loneliness.

The darkness was dispelled, but shadows remained along the walls and in the corners.

A hungry darkness lay on both sides of the road

A bird swooped through the darkness overhead

the night, the shadows, the eyes of darkness."

In the Mercedes, in the darkness, with the doors locked, she said, "No wonder we haven't been able to figure it out!"

The Cessna Turbo Skylane RG knifed through the darkness, two miles above the Nevada desert, with the low clouds under it, wings plated silver by moonlight.

The rear windows were blank, black; a sentry might be standing behind any of them, invisible in the darkness.

Entering the formidable mountains, they had become aware of how soon darkness would settle over the sheltered valleys and ravines, and they had discussed the wisdom of proceeding

The heated road stretched out of sight in the darkness.

Alexander peered anxiously through the sheeting snow into which the chopper moved like a blind man running full-steam into endless darkness

This gave people confidence and as darkness fell, a slow, uncertain movement on the common began

One or two adventurous people went into the darkness and crawled quite near the Martians, but they never returned, because now and again a light-ray swept round the common, and the Heat-Ray was ready to follow

And as it flew, it rained down darkness on the land.

When we saw that, we moved as slowly as possible out of the grey light of the kitchen and into the darkness of the hall.

For hours we lay there in the darkness, while from outside came the sounds of hammering and then, after some time, a sound like an engine

I followed him quickly and quietly and in the darkness I heard him drinking

In the darkness I could just see the thing moving towards me and examining the wall and the floor

The tentacle did not come into the hall again, but I lay all the tenth day in the darkness, too frightened even to move for a drink

After my time in the darkness, the day seemed very bright, the sky was shining blue

The pit was still in darkness

I heard a large number of dogs fighting over the bodies that lay in the darkness at the bottom of the pit.

They talk and grow angry, paler, uglier, and I wake, cold and shaking, in the darkness.