noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plunged into darkness
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The house was suddenly plunged into darkness .
the gathering darkness/dusk/shadows etc
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the evening’s gathering shadows
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
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In a matter of minutes there was complete darkness .
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In complete darkness , the circadian clock still continues to tick vigorously.
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The room was left in complete darkness .
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At last I stumble off the path into complete darkness .
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He heard their crashing, giggling descent, swinging his beam away from them so they would be in complete darkness .
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So complete darkness can cause panic.
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Many species will, in complete darkness , utter a few snatches of song if disturbed at their roosts.
deep
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There was a bunch of winter aconites on the table, and stripes of sunshine on the floor alternated with deep darkness .
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The fort was in deep darkness , being equipped with only a few improvised oil lamps.
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The room was very quiet, wrapped in a deep blue darkness .
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Lightning forked overhead, illuminating the camp like day, and thunder crashed deafeningly through the deep darkness that followed.
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This bestows on Guinness its deep ruby darkness .
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Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
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Do not be lost in the deep darkness of despair and hopelessness.
gathering
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He turned round and walked off into the gathering darkness .
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He sat, a wine cup clenched firmly in his hands, as he stared through a window into the gathering darkness .
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A gathering darkness over a white plain.
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At first Joshua took an interest in their route, peering into the gathering darkness in an attempt to identify some landmark.
light
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You can't have law and order without lawlessness and disorder, just as you can't have light without darkness .
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I reconcile Good and Evil and create light , darkness , worlds, universes.
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At the same time one should look for points of light in the darkness .
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I still get a slight sense of light and darkness , but that's all.
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Crucified among thieves, he chose the way which reconciled the forces of light and darkness .
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Panes of light and darkness shattered before her.
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In those moments when a light was a dream or a miracle, you were light in that darkness .
total
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She was working in almost total darkness .
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He rolled across the grass and lay for a minute in total , unrelieved darkness , the wind roaring in his ears.
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The graveyard was in total darkness .
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One ordinary Ecosphere managed to stay alive in a total darkness for six months, contrary to logical expectations.
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Play around the centre spot was fast and furious, though the ground was in total darkness everywhere else.
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They were surprised to find the house in total darkness .
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He cried out, suddenly aware he was in total darkness , the smashing of stone joining the cry.
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John's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness .
■ NOUN
pitch
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In part two ... Into the night ... Freefalling in pitch darkness .
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We will perform the experiment as before, but this time in pitch darkness .
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He set out brightly, on past the notice, into pitch darkness .
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Up a narrow circular stair therefrom he went, and in the almost pitch darkness cannoned into somebody coming down.
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Suddenly the headlights of the Glory went out and they found themselves sitting in pitch darkness .
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She woke in the pitch darkness of the curtained bed with the suddenness of one called.
■ VERB
disappear
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The woman caught sight of me, turned away, and disappeared into the darkness .
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He swung his legs over the windowsill and for an instant his torso seemed to disappear into the darkness inside.
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One disappeared back into the darkness .
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When she looks for them in her rearview mirror, they have disappeared into the darkness of the guava grove.
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We disappear into the darkness , where nobody can see that we're not rolling around the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy.
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Don't disappear into the darkness where they might come after you.
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Half a dozen parrots cut a brilliant green streak across our bonnet before disappearing into the looming darkness ahead.
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You disappear into the darkness in between.
fall
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Hasty rides at midnight along windswept cliffs, a King falling into darkness , prophecies of doom.
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Sometimes a sharp crack and something falling into darkness .
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Fergus woke in utter darkness , wondering where he was; he felt as though he was falling backwards for ever into darkness.
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Miles screamed and fell into an unforgiving darkness filled with endless pain and memories.
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Every culture, however imperfectly and blindly, either turned towards the light or fell back into the darkness .
hear
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He moves in the darkness , something you hear more than see.
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Just then the light went out, and, in the darkness , I heard the King crying.
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I get down on my hands and knees and peer into the darkness but can only hear him grunting.
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In the darkness I heard some one moving very quietly to the door.
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Much later, he woke up in darkness , thinking he heard footsteps outside.
lie
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In front of the Althosian system lay only eternal darkness .
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I closed my eyes and lay there in a darkness of my own.
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I lay in the darkness but my soul lay, the insect's child, washed in endless light.
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Later, although savouring the warmth of the electric blanket, she lay frowning in the darkness .
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Kim woke and lay there in the darkness , strangely alert, listening.
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I lay in the cacophonous darkness thinking about magic.
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However, their arrival tends to be in a first-class cabin rather than lying starving in darkness beside a dying friend.
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By lunchtime he would be lying in the darkness and the corrosive quicklime.
move
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He moves in the darkness , something you hear more than see.
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Something was moving around in the darkness .
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When he was sure he hadn't been spotted, he moved in the darkness back towards the Dancing Fly.
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Forgotten that she had thought she had seen some one moving around in the darkness .
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He moved stealthily through the darkness , making his way cautiously towards the jetty.
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Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes, dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom.
peer
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They peered at the saline darkness: a world of algae and sea sounds.
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Erik Hansen peered into the darkness outside his windshield.
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He unlocked the door and peered out into the darkness .
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I peered into the darkness and saw a little old woman sitting opposite me.
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Master Benjamin was still on the convent wall, peering into the darkness .
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Lefevre peered behind into the darkness .
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Ward put his face closer to the window and peered down into the darkness .
plunge
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Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness .
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The lights dim, then go off, plunging the hall into darkness .
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Just as the teacher was getting into her stride, the whole school was plunged into darkness .
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Finally she left the room, only to turn off the power switch, which plunged the house into darkness .
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Streets and homes have been plunged into random darkness .
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Lily moved away from him and pressed the switch that plunged the room into darkness .
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The universe was about to be plunged again into eternal darkness .
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With his house plunged into darkness , Jessie's owner sought my help.
sit
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The Count sat in the darkness below, listening to their minds.
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You can get men to sit in the darkness and watch other people copulate with animals on a screen.
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Janice went home earlier because of Teddy's time-keeping and the office sits in darkness .
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Reacher and the gunner sat in the darkness behind me, in the pockets.
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I just sat staring into the darkness , hugging my knees.
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I switched the desk lamp off, and sat in darkness .
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I went back and sat in the darkness on one of the chairs under the colonnade.
stand
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Siegfried stood in the darkness with a compass and a penlight.
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For a long moment I just stood there in the darkness , feeling like a diver on a high platform.
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The moon had moved beyond the window-frame, and the door where the boy stood was almost in darkness .
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The pile drivers stood idle in the darkness , gray silhouettes like horses sleeping upright in a field.
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I stood in the darkness , panting.
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The sun went all the way down and I was standing in the purple darkness .
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Lou had stood in darkness apart from a single spotlight.
stare
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He stared into the green darkness behind them.
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Her face staring , staring into the darkness , trying to gaze herself into another world.
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A little later she lay in bed beside her snoring husband, staring into the darkness .
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Thus, using infra-red, he would be able to stare through smoke or darkness .
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I stared through the bleak darkness .
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Alec turned on his back and stared into the darkness .
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She spent the next couple of hours staring into the darkness .
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She stared into the darkness until eventually her eyes adjusted and she could see every object in the unfamiliar room.
wait
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Silently, we waited in the darkness , and then we galloped round the house and straight into the group of men.
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He waited , in the darkness behind my chair.
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An assassin's ruse: one would knock on the door, the other would be waiting in the darkness .
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But it was still only dusk, and we went outside to wait for full darkness on the roof of the folly.
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Out in his shellhole, looking up the hill towards Thiepval, Stephen lay, waiting for the darkness to be complete.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mantle of snow/darkness etc
cleave the air/darkness etc
night/darkness/dusk falls
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The lights came on as darkness fell on the city.
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And this becomes more intense as night falls .
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As darkness falls an eerie voice Whines beware, beware, beware.
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As darkness falls the immortal sounds of John Hurley will be heard in the upstairs Bar.
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As dusk falls crowds of people walk towards the town to meet the tanker.
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As night falls the houses light up one by one, and smugglers move stealthily about in the moonlight.
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As night falls , the scene changes.
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As night falls , there are nightclubs and discos for those with lots of energy left.
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I drain it, pack my bags, close off the propane, and before dusk falls reluctantly board up the cabin.
the powers of good/evil/darkness
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May we seek to develop the powers of good that lie within us.
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So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
under (the) cover of darkness/night
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Kawaja fueled speculation by publicly suggesting that barrels of the by-product were shipped out under cover of night.
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Later, under cover of darkness, they crept into the house, where Charles hid for the night in the attic.
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Locals under the cover of darkness.
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Several of us ducked out under cover of darkness, even as others arrived.
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The actual emergence usually takes place under cover of darkness.
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They would exit under cover of darkness at one of numerous drop-zones fifty kilometres from the vast sprawl of Sagramaso City.
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They would pull out under cover of darkness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A voice came from out of the darkness , but she couldn't see anyone.
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As my eyes became used to the darkness I could make out a bed in the corner of the room.
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Colour films must be developed in complete darkness .
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Northern Alaska experiences eight weeks of 24-hour darkness .
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The darkness of the lenses changes when you go into the sun.
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The city was a violent place at that time, and it was not safe to walk the streets during the hours of darkness .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By midnight the wind had strengthened to gale force, and in the darkness there was high drama.
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Even with headlights and streetlights on, it provided sudden darkness .
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He had walked up to us from somewhere out of the darkness .
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His smile was ovens and chains and darkness .
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She could hear the sea thrashing about in the dark; for a moment the darkness looked as if it was shifting too.
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Then, when it is all over ... Out of the darkness there came a single brilliant flash.
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They fought 50 rounds, only to have the fight stopped because of darkness .
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They took her away, into the rainy darkness .