Sentence examples for darkened water from inspiring English sources

The explosion charred the trees in the area; their leafless black skeletons rise out of darkened water.

The film is florid in style — porcelain figurines crushed in a vice, Communion wafers dropped into darkened water and fizzing like Alka-Seltzer — but Mr. Cultrera remains understated and calm throughout.

With wide expanses, narrow meanders and, seemingly everywhere, tentaclelike tree roots forming large arches before disappearing into darkened water, the swamp -- 20 miles of it, from Dover in Dutchess County to Southeast in Putnam County -- seems more Southern bayou than anything Northern.

In an "underwater maze" test requiring animals swimming in darkened water to remember the location of a submerged platform, the born runners who had had wheel access showed little ability to learn the task, performing even worse than their nonrunning relatives.

Despite the ugliness of darkened waters, the ecological danger the slick posed to the mainland seemed to recede Friday.

Although 70% of its chemical factories have now closed, vast clouds of smoke still fill the air and darkened river water betrays signs of the mercury and other pollutants which have seeped deep into the ground over the decades.

He picked up survivors from rooftops and windows and hoisted them aboard a six-man rubber raft while standing in darkened icy waters that nearly engulfed his 6-foot-3 frame.

Until very recently the palace was a darkened, dirty hulk without water, electricity, toilets or showers.

Almost cater-corner was another darkened, abandoned house filled with water and garbage, nearly to the roof.

The lifeless body dangles weightlessly, as if floating in water, below the darkened underbelly of the aircraft, itself hovering beyond time and gravity.

It was a time of new birth for Pelham Manor — the warm deep freeze, the dead phone, the stilled water pump, the darkened television.