| And then, as the sky slowly darkens, dark silhouettes slowly start wandering along the city-centre sidewalks. |
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| If anything more darkens the mood of our brooding Chancellor it is warnings such as these. |
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| The color darkens his eyes just slightly without causing him to look any paler. |
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| As the brilliant Sun is covered by the Moon, the pearly corona flashes into view, the sky darkens, and all of nature seems to come to a halt. |
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| As the obscuration of the Sun increases the sky darkens, although it never gets as black as dead of night. |
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| The first section scampers about in a happy fashion but darkens suddenly in the key of D minor. |
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| But the poet's vision darkens apocalyptically in The Lice, which seems written under the shadow of planetary extinction. |
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| And everyone understands how it feels to watch birds coming in to roost as a sky darkens. |
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| The two streams are known as blackwater creeks because tannin, released from the breakdown of leaves in the woods, darkens their waters. |
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| The upper surface is usually sticky, or gelatinous when wet, and of a blood-red colour which darkens with age. |
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| By little and little, the surface of the plate takes a yellow tint, which darkens more and more, approaching to bistre. |
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| The dialogue alternatingly sparkles or darkens as various nooses, comic or otherwise, steadily tighten. |
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| Carving single blocks of beech, ash, wild cherry or oak, he darkens the figures' surfaces by lightly charring them, after which he polishes them so that they seem to glow. |
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| Tens of thousands line up to pay their respects as Hurricane Danny moves slowly up the Atlantic seaboard and darkens the sky. |
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| Cresol and phenol, found in Chloraseptic, may cause a brown or yellow-green color that darkens on standing. |
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| It is a very ductile, pale metal, which darkens in the presence of trace amounts of oxygen. |
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| The drupes dry in the sun or by machine for several days, during which the pepper around the seed shrinks and darkens into a thin, wrinkled black layer. |
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| The cultivar 'Thundercloud' has bright red foliage which darkens purple. |
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