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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DUSKY
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Their voices had a dusky turbulence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
4  With a start all glared at dark Ahab, who was surrounded by five dusky phantoms that seemed fresh formed out of air.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
5  Hemp is a dusky, dark fellow, a sort of Indian; but Manilla is as a golden-haired Circassian to behold.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.
6  The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
7  In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
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.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
9  His cheeks were the color of crushed grapes, and his dusky eyes glowed with a languishing fire.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
13  Each dusky figure seemed a breathing statue, so motionless was the posture, so intense the attention of the individual.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
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.