Sentence examples for darkness last from inspiring English sources

What about in Antarctica, where periods of continuous daylight and continuous darkness last several months?

The city was plunged into darkness last night and telephone lines to some parts of Mandalay were cut.

At the request of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the tower was kept in darkness last night, as a symbol of mourning.

WASHINGTON — Millions of people in Southern California, Arizona and northern Mexico were plunged into darkness last September because of errors and system problems paralleling those that caused the great Eastern blackout of August 2003, federal investigators reported on Tuesday.

The article summarized the worst of the damage: "New London, Conn., was in darkness last night from the failure of its electric light system; a serious fire which had destroyed an entire block in Bank Street was still raging, and National Guardsmen were patrolling the streets.

Their actions have proved controversial, with unidentified protesters plunging Crimea into darkness last month by destroying electricity supply towers.

MOST of South Africa was briefly plunged into darkness last week by a particularly severe power cut the latest of many and a cause of growing concern.

As Hurricane Sandy plunged parts of the city into darkness last week, the New York Police Department found itself not just restoring order, but also restoring light.

THE FIFTH COLUMN Once again the Mint Theater Company, producers of Tolstoy's "Power of Darkness" last fall, has come up with an obscure script from a literary giant.

Instead of questioning the law of averages, he focused on the memory of the 25-foot birdie putt he made in the gathering darkness last year to beat Hoch.

The match had been interrupted by darkness yesterday.