Sentence examples for darkened home from inspiring English sources

KARALETI, Georgia — The young Georgian woman stood behind the entrance of a darkened home.

That is why the Blackout of 2003 is likely to become more than an occasion to bemoan some of the outdated technology employed by profit-sensitive utility companies or the inconvenience of returning to a darkened home.

He paused whenever his pregnant wife entered the darkened home, built with his paychecks from America.

In her darkened home (lighting is by Catherine Clark and Jamie Roderick), the witch terrorizes her prisoner, Nimmee (Eliza Martin Simpson), a barefoot figure of Cinderella drudgery.

Flashlights beamed through the windows of the darkened home and his older sister, Rosa Vargas Morales, who had recently arrived from Guatemala with her three children and a granddaughter, trembled in a room.

― Susan Bro sat in her darkened home on Sunday, tearing up as she smiled.

As Jennifer Lieberman and others have taught us, in times of disaster and emergency, electrical infrastructures translate natural effects into other kinds of suffering and danger: paralyzed cities, intensive-care wards on backup generators, darkened homes and isolated humans.

As commuters trickled into a mostly unscathed New York City yesterday in the wake of Hurricane Irene, raging rivers continued to cause record flooding all across the north-eastern United States and electricity companies struggled to restore power to 5m darkened homes and businesses.

The drill followed several days' instruction in the Arabic-language newspapers on procedures for darkening homes and businesses in the event of air attacks.

The outage affected at least 14 of the country's 23 states and caused several hours of traffic jams, as well as darkening homes and offices, in the capital, Caracas, on Friday.

Google has apparently taken note: on March 29, the company briefly darkened its home page in solidarity with "Earth Hour," a worldwide conservation event.