darkle
Americanverb (used without object)
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to appear dark; show indistinctly.
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to grow dark, gloomy, etc.
verb
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to grow dark; darken
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(intr) to appear dark or indistinct
Etymology
Origin of darkle
1790–1800; back formation from darkling, adv. taken as present participle
Example Sentences
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Now sorrowing King and Queen, as midday booms, The hushed Fane enter, while o'er mourners black, Grey soldier, choral white, quick gleams and glooms Of sun and shadow darkle and sparkle back.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
A ship glides by, a shadowy form, Faint roseate lights around me sparkle, A gathering mist precedes the storm, And far-off forest tree-tops darkle.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
Stars, for my mariner sparkle, As the nights darkle!
From Targum by George Henry Borrow
In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon
From him that dream of transport flows, Which sweet intoxication knows; With him, the brow forgets to darkle, And brilliant graces learn to sparkle.
From The Odes of Anacreon by Thomas Moore
Faith darkled in her corner and said not a word.
From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Thus to their hopeless eyes the night was shown, And grimly darkled o'er the faces pale, And the dim desolate deep: twelve days had Fear Been their familiar, and now Death was here.—Byron.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
I was so far from wishing myself to smile at it, that I darkled most respectfully about it, without the courage to inquire directly into the mystery.
From Seven English Cities by William Dean Howells
The black clouds cleared away as suddenly as they had darkled upon us; the Golden Sun came out, and the dreadful scene was lit up in Splendour.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala
We were standing in front of her cottage, that darkled in the trees.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
They included a number of vivid green and pinkish-orange darkling beetles from China and Laos, and four long-snouted weevils from South Africa.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2023
For them, our species stands before a darkling plain that is at once its birthright and its destiny: the universe itself.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
Enter a species of darkling beetle larvae known as Zophobas morio.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2022
Across the United States this autumn, exhibitions and collection displays of historical treasures promise to elucidate our own darkling age.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Far below, the deathless fires put out their glow and smoke on the darkling air, and even at this great height the clang of hammers could be heard in the snapping wind.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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