Sentence examples for encroaching darkness from inspiring English sources
"encroaching darkness" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it when describing a gradual or impending darkness that is spreading or advancing into a certain area or situation. It can also be used metaphorically to convey a sense of fear or foreboding. Example: As the sun set, a sense of unease settled upon the town, as if the encroaching darkness brought with it an unknown danger.
In his Fascist "Caesar," a plaintive air by Marc Blitzstein created an oasis amid encroaching darkness.
In the shifting movement of red and black in the murals, Logan suggests Rothko's encroaching darkness.
Goya clutches the bedsheets in fear of the nightmare faces in the encroaching darkness.
Bathed in the purplish glow of the coming dusk, this autumnal lake view conveys both encroaching darkness and eternal light.
And she's absolutely not Ravka's last hope against the ever encroaching darkness which is killing more citizens everyday.
I say this despite being a constitutionally unhappy person who has fought all her life against an encroaching darkness — and not always successfully.
The results are resolutely downbeat: people hurry past, expressionless or anxious-looking, their pale faces shrouded in the encroaching winter darkness.
On the rear side of the White House, I will watch as President Obama stands with his own family, singing carols and flipping the switch on the National Tree -- an act with ancient roots in the tradition of lighting a candle against the encroaching winter darkness.
But, with darkness encroaching, Garcia made a 25-foot putt from the fringe to stay even.
It took place outdoors, at dusk, under the trees and at the bottom of a hill, darkness encroaching with every minute.
Keeping a relentless pace, dissonant choral music and the shrieks of fiends descending on you in surround sound merge with the powerful need to keep moving to avoid being overcome by the oft-encroaching darkness; all that in an endless, beast-infested, primarily subterranean labyrinth.
