Sentence examples for darkened ground from inspiring English sources

Twisted metal rods hung down amid the debris in the darkened ground floor, piles of glass shards lay about the grounds and parking lot, and virtually every window in the front of the sprawling four-story building had been blasted out.

The great hotels had darkened their ground floors and locked their doors.

If, however, a black ground is desired, it can be achieved by darkening the ground with the smoke of a candle.

Not long before, as the sky darkened, Simmons took ground ball after ground ball.

At a few spots, the meager warmth of martian summer seems able to coax enough liquid water out of the ground to darken the soil in streaks.

As he watched them razor-thin streaks of light appeared in the wake of their serpentines and the ground underneath darkened suddenly, as though in an eclipse.

Leaves of differing shape, colour and significance, split apples and stiff, darkened banana skins covered the ground.

In the long since darkened green of the Polo Grounds, which the author brightly illuminates, we witness the unfolding of the plot against a backdrop of improbably mounting prowess (of the Giants' 28 home games remaining after the sign stealing began, they won 23).

Then the ground trembled and the sky darkened.

As Busch used poor grounds and colours, most are heavily darkened and have an almost monochrome effect.

Now, four months later, the neighborhood of low-slung brick homes is largely deserted, a ghostly column of empty driveways and darkened windows, the silence broken only by the groan of heavy machinery pawing at the ground as remediation continues.