darken
verb (used with object)
to make dark or darker.
was darkening
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past progressiveof darken.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Romano came to the Voice at the tail end of its heyday in the late ’90s, just as the specter of Craigslist was darkening the paper’s future by threatening its goldmine in classified advertising .
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
Looking at her tweets, it is clear that, at the end of September 2017, Molly's mood was darkening again.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2022
The sky was darkening and the temperature was dropping, but we had one more stop before we returned to the campground.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2018
The pink-tinged sky was darkening, and the air was warm and humid when my husband, Bruce, and I landed last February in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the French Caribbean island.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2017
They sat in the ashes by the side of the road and looked out to the east where the shape of the city was darkening into the coming night.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
