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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Where a fallen sycamore Whitely arches a pathway o'er, And shadows darkle The lambent cool, As, softly a-sparkle.
From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice
Canst thou shine now, then darkle, And being latent, feel thyself no less?
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye of clear and diamond sparkle, Where the Baltic waters darkle, Lonely German seer of Reason, Great and calm as Atlas old; Through our formless foggy season, Short thine adamantine cold.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
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
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
We were standing in front of her cottage, that darkled in the trees.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
The banks were lines of dusk, except where some lone cottonwood loomed skyward like a giant ghost clothed with a mantle that glistered and darkled in the chill star-sheen.
From The River and I by John G. Neihardt
Against the horizon a peasant boy leaned on his staff and darkled against the darkening sky.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
Their rods and nets hung up, awaiting the return of genial spring; and the churlish stream, abandoned to its wintry mood, darkled and roared savagely under the windows of the Brass Castle.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Faith darkled in her corner and said not a word.
From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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
Kadare has always been a spare stylist of limpid force, and John Hodgson translates this novel as he did three others by Kadare: with impressive fealty to the author’s darkling rhythms of prose and plot.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
He waved his skinny arm towards the darkling mountains.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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