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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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
Should It never Curb or cure Aught whatever Those endure Whom It quickens, let them darkle to extinction swift and sure.
From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various
Canst thou shine now, then darkle, And being latent, feel thyself no less?
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, for my mariner sparkle, As the nights darkle!
From Targum by George Henry Borrow
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
We were standing in front of her cottage, that darkled in the trees.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
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
Northward, a forest darkled, whose glades of brightness I could not see.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
Against the horizon a peasant boy leaned on his staff and darkled against the darkening sky.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
He never was out of the way when wanted; he darkled with your boots and shoes in a little closet next your door, and came from it with the morning coffee and rolls.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
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
The result isn’t just a literary quarterly; it’s a tour of the bright and darkling plain we call contemporary American literature.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2019
He turned his tired gaze away from the darkling fields below and yawned, and then he sighed.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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