Example Sentences

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Like many a natural catastrophe, Europe's monetary storm blew up with little warning, though the clouds had been darkening since June, when Denmark narrowly rejected the Maastricht treaty.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cloud on his companion's face had been darkening.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

Alone, in the kitchen he drummed idly on the window-pane, watching the first few drops of a shower that had been darkening the sky for an hour past.

From Dawn by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

The clouds had been darkening around us all day, and at night we had the prospect of a storm.

From My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel by Loughborough, Mary Ann

While this was going on the sky had been darkening.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert