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dark

If something is dark, is has no light. The cave is very dark. If something is dark, it is scary or not pleasant. World War II was a dark time in world history.

dark

Place where there is no light. Most humans are afraid of the dark. Late in the day, especially after sunset. Go and play with your friends, but be back before dark! Darks are clothes that are not light in color.

dark

devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black sitting in a dark corner a dark day dark shadows dark as the inside of a black cat (used of color) having a dark hue dark green dark glasses dark colors like wine red or navy blue brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) dark eyes absence of light or illumination (= black, sinister) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable black deeds a black lie his black heart has concocted yet another black deed Darth Vader of the dark side a dark purpose dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him — Thomas Hardy (= darkness) absence of moral or spiritual values the powers of darkness (= darkness) an unilluminated area he moved off into the darkness the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside (= darkness) an unenlightened state he was in the dark concerning their intentions his lectures dispelled the darkness (= dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen) showing a brooding ill humor a dark scowl the proverbially dour New England Puritan a glum, hopeless shrug he sat in moody silence a morose and unsociable manner a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius — Bruce Bliven a sour temper a sullen crowd not giving performances; closed the theater is dark on Mondays (= obscure) marked by difficulty of style or expression much that was dark is now quite clear to me those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure secret keep it dark (= blue, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim) causing dejection a blue day the dark days of the war a week of rainy depressing weather a disconsolate winter landscape the first dismal dispiriting days of November a dark gloomy day grim rainy weather (= benighted) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture this benighted country benighted ages of barbarism and superstition the dark ages a dark age in the history of education (= colored, coloured, dark-skinned) having skin rich in melanin pigments National Association for the Advancement of Colored People dark-skinned peoples

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Simple sentences

It's all dark outside.
You must conquer your fear of the dark.
I waited for her till it got dark.
I reached the village before dark.
The little boy is afraid of the dark.
The child was afraid of being left alone in the dark.
It was quite dark when I got home.
She disappeared in the dark.
The sky is full of dark clouds.
Rather than light-hearted and cheerful men, I'm attracted to sober men with a bit of a dark side to them.
The sky was dark.
Are you afraid of the dark?
It's dark outside.
Owls can see in the dark.
It's totally dark outside.
All cats are grey in the dark.
The sky was completely dark.
There is a mass of dark clouds in the sky.
The sky is getting dark.
It was dark under the bridge.
All of a sudden, large drops of rain began falling from the dark sky.
It is getting dark outside.
It is dark outside.
You should return home before it gets dark.
It's getting dark little by little outside.

Movie subtitles

They ruled over a land that was in some ways still mired in the Dark Ages.
I did it in five minutes in the dark.
Hey, it's dark outside.
The sky went from dark to light, and it looked like it was on fire, just like Victoria said.
Since your dark pieces won, there would be many people dead somewhere.
Even when I was stuck on the floor in the dark inside of me, there was love.
That's why if you're in the dark for a long time, you forget what you were looking at in the beginning, and when everything became dark, it's not love nor obsession nor desire, it just became the evil monster itself.
I mean, he's so sarcastic and dark, and you're not that.
Well, you're out of dark roast.
I can't study without dark roast.
He's about as in the dark as the IRS is about my Swiss accounts.
Number plate? It was too dark.
It's gonna be dark soon.
The outer arm, that was also observed in the previous survey, and the dark coloured areas in the inner parts of the Galaxy.
I want to crawl into its dark light, dive into its shining darkness!
The squadron approached in the dark.
I'm backstage at the theater, deserted at this time of night. It's full of dark corners.
Yvette Delys then heads back towards her dressing room. She walks down the same dark hallways to her brightly lit dressing room, where she'd left the money, the 15,000 f we talked about earlier, foolishly left on her vanity.
She points her ivory-handled revolver into the dark, in the direction of the noise she heard, and she shoots.
In the dark forests of Africa, you dared all dangers.
Look, when everything's light and you wanna make 'em dark.
When everything's dark and you wanna make 'em light.
Well, after I sort of took the dark-eyed beauty away from you, I thought you might be decamping.
And then she turned and ran back into the dark.
It will be a joy to see those dark windows lit up again.
Some dark night, I think I'll come and lay for you if the hens don't get sore.
You're not going out in the cold, dark night, are you?
It's getting dark.
It gets dark at seven.
In autumn it gets dark at seven.
In winter it gets dark at five.
In spring it gets dark at seven.
In summer it gets dark at nine.
Then I will be your ally a thousand, even ten thousand times. Even when I was stuck on the floor in the dark inside of me, there was love.
Well, you're out of dark roast. I can't study without dark roast.
The first sailor that was infected pulled the whole crew down into a dark, watery grave.

News and current affairs

In 1989, it looked as if the dark legacy of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.
NEW YORK - Dark, lowering financial and economic clouds are, it seems, rolling in from every direction: the eurozone, the United States, China, and elsewhere.
PARIS - The newspaper commentaries that I write often have a dark perspective.
Even if the US avoids a fundamentalist dark age, it clearly risks losing its global research dominance.
I used to believe that denial of Saudi complicity in the attacks reflected our distress with what happened on that dark day.
Who is there now who can still light a candle in the dark?
But my favorite dark-horse bubble candidate for the next decade or so is farmland - and not just because there have been stories in recent months of booming farmland prices in the US and the United Kingdom.
Either we will write this history ourselves, or we will suffer through a dark era that could have been avoided.
No sooner did this strategy pay off with a narrow re-election victory - one that strengthened Republican control of Congress - than the dark realities of Bush's fiscal recklessness started to be recognized.
Obviously, the Chinese were politically tone-deaf in choosing an architect whose name carried such dark historical connotations.
There is also a dark cloud over the mortgage market following a judgment by the Supreme People's Court in 2003 that banned the repossession of homes that are a primary residence.
Yet uncritical attempts to apply biological science to legislation about the human condition, if we are not careful, may lead us back into the dark days of eugenics.
His carnivalesque odyssey of totalitarianism displays a world of misery, boredom, and obedience in its dark journey to an unreachable paradise.
There remains a considerable capacity overhang--such as fiber optic lines that remain dark, having yet to see any light pass through them.
Once it was dark, a screen was set up and Mark showed home videos from space.
As long as the US keeps the rest of the world in the dark, illegal acts - including possible war crimes - may be committed with impunity.
That is why, today, it is critically important, in the face of a dark force that is rising, swelling, and unfurling in Europe, to defend Angela Merkel.
It also exposes the dark side of China's growing involvement in Africa, namely that its thirst for oil outweighs humanitarian considerations.
Of course, Thaksin's rule had a dark underside: corruption, legislated conflicts of interest, cronyism, human rights violations, and abuse of power, among other evidence of misrule.
The dark skies over the northern Russian coast in Leviathan look ravishing, and Jia even manages to make the concrete and glass jungle of Shenzhen, the monster city between Guangzhou and Hong Kong, look gorgeous.
Before his exile, Yu had been thrown into a dark room and tortured, because Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.
But if Chinese propaganda paints too dark a picture of the Tibetan past, Westerners who sympathize with the Tibetan cause are often too sentimental.
There are such dark spots everywhere in the country.

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