Example Sentences

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He seemed very dark to Kate, menacing even; but Honora found it worth her while to shed her brightness on his tenebrosity, so that was, of course, Honora's affair.

From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson

It is free from opacity, tenebrosity, fumidity, and injucundity, or translucency.

From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John

What human ant-heaps, what histories, farces, tragedies played out in airless tenebrosity!

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel