DUSKY in a Sentence
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44 example sentences for DUSKY, such as:
1. Their voices had a dusky turbulence.
2. In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.
3. His cheeks were the color of crushed grapes, and his dusky eyes glowed with a languishing fire.
4. The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green.
5. With a start all glared at dark Ahab, who was surrounded by five dusky phantoms that seemed fresh formed out of air.
2. In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.
3. His cheeks were the color of crushed grapes, and his dusky eyes glowed with a languishing fire.
4. The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green.
5. With a start all glared at dark Ahab, who was surrounded by five dusky phantoms that seemed fresh formed out of air.
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Meanings and Examples of DUSKY
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dusky
a. naturally having skin of a dark color
a. lighted by or as if by twilight
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1 The houses on the outskirts were dusky old red mansions with wooden frills, or gaunt frame shelters like grocery boxes, or new bungalows with concrete foundations imitating stone.
2 Their voices had a dusky turbulence.
3 His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth.
4 With a start all glared at dark Ahab, who was surrounded by five dusky phantoms that seemed fresh formed out of air.
5 Hemp is a dusky, dark fellow, a sort of Indian; but Manilla is as a golden-haired Circassian to behold.
6 The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green.
7 In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.
8 All the mystery and witchery of the night seemed to have gathered there amid the perfumes and the dusky and tortuous outlines of flowers and foliage.
9 His cheeks were the color of crushed grapes, and his dusky eyes glowed with a languishing fire.
10 He observed by the vacant expression of the Indian's countenance, that his eye, accustomed to the open air had not yet been able to penetrate the dusky light which pervaded the depth of the cavern.
11 Here and there a picket had, indeed, raised a song, or mingled in a dance, which had drawn the dusky savages around them, from their lairs in the forest.
12 The curling and spotless mists, which had been seen sailing above the hills toward the north, were now returning in an interminable dusky sheet, that was urged along by the fury of a tempest.
13 Each dusky figure seemed a breathing statue, so motionless was the posture, so intense the attention of the individual.
14 At such moments it would not have been difficult to have fancied the dusky savage the Prince of Darkness brooding on his own fancied wrongs, and plotting evil.
15 The instant, however, he was concealed by the foliage of the bushes, his dusky form was to be seen gliding, like that of a serpent, toward the desired treasure.
Example Sentence:
1 I had, by cross-ways and by- paths, once more drawn near the tract of moorland; and now, only a few fields, almost as wild and unproductive as the heath from which they were scarcely reclaimed, lay between me and the dusky hill.