Sentence examples for dark afternoons from inspiring English sources

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Especially on dark afternoons, with the mist spitting in her face like some pissed-off ghost.

The desk clerk at my hotel gave me the weather report: cold drizzle, brisk winds and short, dark afternoons.

We're being subjected to the same cold rain, whipping winds and dark afternoons that have plagued mankind for centuries.

They also discussed whether dark mornings or dark afternoons were more depressing; whether we control time, or it controls us; why "The Waste of Daylight," the 1907 pamphlet by the daylight-saving pioneer William Willett, was a seminal work; and whether Scotland should just go ahead and get its own time zone, already.

By now we've probably all spent a few dark afternoons curled up with a bag of Mini Cheddars and a Nils Frahm record for company.

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It was mid-afternoon and we needed time to build the igloo before dark.

CHICAGO — On a dark afternoon last week, the road to Jerusalem and Beijing momentarily veered through the office of a real estate company here.

At the end of his book, we find Williams sitting in the Moore stand and enduring a dark afternoon of the soul.

One dark afternoon last winter, after too many hours spent studying Arabic verbs, I found myself staring uncomprehendingly at a video on my computer screen.

On a dark afternoon the day after the feast of St Nicholas, despite the threat of a storm, he sets out to secure the purchase of a wood at a bargain price.

We pursue him through a "dark afternoon" in a Nigerian boarding school to a lighter encounter in an English classroom where he gleefully realises teachers do not carry canes.

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