Example Sentences

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My hope is that Larkin finds peace with the demons that have been darkening her soul since long before she and I ever met.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2016

The clouds have been darkening over this picturesque island nation in recent years as euphoria over the end of its long-running civil war has ebbed.

From Time • Apr. 15, 2013

No hasty judgment is pardonable in these matters; but for the last ten or twelve years the skies have been darkening for a storm.’ 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

There should have been darkening clouds on every horizon.

From The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country by Cullum, Ridgwell