Darkened is an English word with synonyms like old or dark. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Darkened meaning
simple past and past participle of darken
Using Darkened
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of darken
- Useful related words include: old, dark.
- In the example corpus, darkened often appears in combinations such as: the darkened, in darkened, darkened room.
Context around Darkened
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Darkened
- In this selection, "darkened" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, down, fleet, past, room, bedroom and areas stand out and add context to how "darkened" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a darkened screen gives and aisle past darkened pews filled. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "darkened" sits close to words such as adaptability, alam and arable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with darkened
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A year later when I returned, the mood had darkened. (10 words)
As thousands of mourners marched to Riverside Cemetery, an eclipse of the sun darkened the sky. (16 words)
When regulars descended into the Pic’s cozy darkened cellar under 5 Milk Street, many called out their names. (19 words)
A good layout for first-time players is to have Torrent equipped to the top slot, a Spirit Ash and some kind of Consumable item in the left and right slots, and the Lantern on the bottom slot for easy access in caves and other darkened areas. (47 words)
Appearing in an all-black outfit, including a beanie, the Knicks superstar point guard walked up to the microphone as the studio darkened and a drum beat in the background as if he was at a poetry reading at a jazz club. (42 words)
Dr. Emily Tsai, a radiologist who specialized in imaging of the chest at Stanford University School of Medicine, sat in a darkened room looking through the more than 300 images of the patient’s new CT scan. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
A good layout for first-time players is to have Torrent equipped to the top slot, a Spirit Ash and some kind of Consumable item in the left and right slots, and the Lantern on the bottom slot for easy access in caves and other darkened areas.
A year later when I returned, the mood had darkened.
Dr. Emily Tsai, a radiologist who specialized in imaging of the chest at Stanford University School of Medicine, sat in a darkened room looking through the more than 300 images of the patient’s new CT scan.
Inside the darkened vestibule, a man greeted her, and she resisted his entreaties to bring her farther inside and stepped out into the courtyard.
In the short video clip, the clown stalks the village streets, sits on park benches and walks down darkened streets while bearing his hideous grin.
Not much more than three years after Pearl Harbor, Gen. Curtis Lemay’s B-29 bomber fleet darkened Japan’s skies and burned her cities, nearly unopposed.
That feverish drama was already in progress when audiences entering the darkened Drill Hall were confronted by Michael Levine’s stunning stark set of sixty-two meticulously arrayed hospital beds.
Then the lit candle was carried by a cleric up the basilica's center aisle, past darkened pews filled with some 8,000 faithful.
This limitation is most noticeable when the monitor is used in a darkened room, and it can make photos, movies, and games look flat and hazy.
Upon gaining control of Ashley in Chapter 9, players will need to explore the darkened halls of The Castle and find a way to free Leon from the cage he has been trapped.
Used in various forms for thousands of years, the “camera obscura” involves a darkened room or box into which the outside image is projected through a small hole or lens.
What darkened the muddy waters still more, was when not one national leader, but another, made it his duty to get uncomfortably close to what was a murderous business.
When regulars descended into the Pic’s cozy darkened cellar under 5 Milk Street, many called out their names.
A darkened screen gives way to the hellish sirens of Mica Levi’s score, before we awaken, powerless to disrupt Hoss’s hermetic reality.
After agreeing to go into the apartment for drinks, the woman said she was led into a darkened bedroom where she was raped by Maurice and David, who took turns swapping sexual positions.
Afterwards, the two women discussed leaving before going to retrieve their phones from a darkened bedroom, the jury was told.
Appearing in an all-black outfit, including a beanie, the Knicks superstar point guard walked up to the microphone as the studio darkened and a drum beat in the background as if he was at a poetry reading at a jazz club.
As thousands of mourners marched to Riverside Cemetery, an eclipse of the sun darkened the sky.
Dramatic video from Iceland’s coast guard shows fountains of lava soaring more than 50 metres (165ft) into the darkened skies.
He was transfixed by the experience of witnessing the total eclipse in 2017, marveling at how the sky darkened in daytime, the air suddenly chilled, birds silenced and nighttime bugs started chirping.
Common combinations with darkened
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the darkened 18×
- in darkened 13×
- darkened room 11×
- darkened the 6×
- darkened and 6×
- darkened by 6×
- is darkened 4×
- darkened areas 3×
- into darkened 3×
- darkened bedroom 3×