darkling

How To Use darkling In A Sentence

• Jessica is also a Midnighter with powers that are apparently so fierce, the darklings decide to emerge from the outer badlands and go after her. REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
• Generally, pitfall trap data indicated that darkling beetles significantly preferred unmowed areas to mowed areas, while crickets showed no preference.
• She used Thomas Hardy's poem, "The Darkling Thrush" as the armature for her meditations on memory and loss.
• They go to some far trysting-place, some nest that is to be in willow or darkling fir, some place that their ancestors have known; and we are left with a memory of wings dividing the air and a sense of frustration. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
• To a man of the world looking on, who has seen the men and morals of many cities, it was curious, almost pathetic, to watch that poor little innocent creature fresh and smiling, attired in bright colours and a thousand gewgaws, simpering in the midst of these darkling people — practising her little arts and coquetries, with such a court round about her. The Newcomes
• One evening recently I was walking with 2-year-old Kaya in the light of sunset when she pointed to the western sky above the darkling mountains and shouted: ‘Pink!’
• When I was down at Aireys Inlet with the Darklings for our writing retreat, I told them about that mean man who said something narky after the meme thing I did, and out of that came a conversation about the value of knowing 25 random things about the characters in our manuscripts. Book Giveaways « Tales from the Reading Room
• Her expertise with numbers is a skill she uses to good effect when she charges weapons to fight off the darklings. REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
• 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. Chapter XLVII
• She stalked, stiff-legged like a wolf, into the darkling garden and like a wolf she sniffed the air.