Example Sentences

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Algae lying dormant on the ice starts blooming in spring blackening large areas of the ice.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024

California’s largest wildfire so far this year was significantly surrounded Monday after blackening a swath of hilly grasslands between San Francisco Bay and the Central Valley.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

In contrast - and blackening the Tory mood still further - is Labour's relatively newly discovered knack of winning where they need to win in a general election.

From BBC • May 3, 2024

The midday gray blackening, then brightening, on account of a remote and veiled disk of sun and moon.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024

During lunch the clouds started to advance, slinking across the blue sky, darting in front of the sun momentarily, casting long shadows across the beach, and blackening the waves.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer