Sentence examples for darkened day from inspiring English sources

In the long light of history — the consoling light to which we turn with every darkened day — everybody has a piece of this holiday already.

As the rain picked up and the skies darkened Monday night, Drew and the other students headed over to his own home.

In the Chicago area, where rivers were already swollen from several recent storms, sunny skies quickly darkened Thursday as violent weather swept across northern Illinois and into northwestern Indiana in the afternoon, bringing heavy rain, high winds and reports of tornadoes just west of the city.

A return to urban grandeur seemed such a foreign concept in a place where thick dust darkened the day, and floodlights gave night an eerie brightness.

As recently as Thursday, EU officials hoped to get Wallonia on board, but the outlook had darkened by Friday morning, when the Belgian prime minister, Charles Michel, denounced the "radicalisation of positions" from Walloon negotiators.

With nothing better to do, the Nets retreated to a darkened room Tuesday and watched videotape of themselves.

The job prospects of an interim judge who provided free legal work to Gov. John G. Rowland of Connecticut darkened on Wednesday, after the State Ethics Commission issued an opinion stating that it is illegal for public officials to accept free services.

The enthusiasm over the industry's display was, of course tragically darkened by Saturday's disaster, in which Britain's crack test pilot, John Deny, along with his observer and 25 spectators, was killed when his prototype de Havilland 110 jet fighter broke up after pulling out of a supersonic dive.