darkling
IPA: dˈɑrkʌɫɪŋ
noun
- (fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark.
- Darkness.
adjective
- (poetic) Dark; growing dark; darkening.
- (figurative) Obscure; taking place unseen, as if in the dark.
adverb
- In the dark; in obscurity.
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Examples of "darkling" in Sentences
- The outside is darkling slowly.
- I believe the name of this episode is The Darkling.
- Darkling beetle pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- And died in darkling air no more to be for ever shown.’
- Darkling beetles eat both fresh and decaying vegetation.
- Such creatures include the Bright Ones and Darkling Glories.
- Darkling Glories are Glories that serve destruction and evil.
- Then clipt and clung about his breast enveiled in darkling room.
- His first book, The Darkling was published in 1982 by Arkham House.
- "'Mine was the woman, darkling I found her,'" he hummed, significantly.
- She is the only female Darkling Lord, and possesses the totem of the Shark.
- When will the book A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve be released in Australia
- The Darkling is destroyed, Nightshade flees, and order is restored to Landover.
- Plus, if I just threw in some multisyllabic words, extended my sentences until each was a paragraph long, and used "darkling" a few times, I'd be the Faulkner of Phoenix.
- To him I reported every detail that occurred when he was not with me; and he, with furrowed brows, sitting darkling by the hour, like a patient spider unravelled the tangle and spun the web afresh.
- Many of her class set out by being impostors and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves or when imposing on others.
- Many of her class set out by being impostors, and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves, or when imposing on others.