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Example sentences for "dark corner"

  • Seeking a dark corner, she closed her eyes.

  • But now from a dark corner of the stage a figure appeared.

  • Stealing from her place, she crept down the aisle, entered a door and emerged at last upon a dark corner of the stage.

  • A tall figure appeared from a dark corner.

  • In the hall outside, in a dark corner, he was obliged to stop and wipe his eyes.

  • The dress-maker, after looking at Margaret again, went off to a dark corner to "offer prayer.

  • Zita left Brent Rock alone and was passing a dark corner when a hand reached out and grasped her by the arm and she heard a voice that she recognized.

  • In a dark corner of the hallway they crouched as their leader went into the laboratory with the chemist.

  • She got up and retreated into a dark corner, for she knew the neighborhood well, and many a time some thug, brutal with drink, had entered her den and wrung her last few pennies from her.

  • Suddenly he found himself before a picture which hung in a dark corner, concealed by a curtain, in his father's former room.

  • Pressed tightly into a dark corner, where the hope of being forgotten and overlooked chains him, he stands motionless.

  • You know where de 'dark corner' is, don't you?

  • They found a dark corner, and sat there almost entirely hidden from passers-by.

  • Ping Wang, leaving the Pages in a dark corner, hurried forward to read the placard, and, to his horror, found that his fears were realised.

  • You will want a candle; it is in a dark corner,' was the answer.

  • She understood at last why Rustan had been in the habit of going often to that church, where she had been kneeling in a dark corner when he had first seen her.

  • Neither of them thought of looking into the small military trunk which stood in a dark corner, and from which Zeno had taken the leathern jerkin and stout hose which he had put on for the expedition.

  • While Curlie and Dorn searched every dark corner, Pompee had eyes only for the new, the unfamiliar.

  • Now they were sheltered from the rain and far from tall trees, where danger from lightning really lurks, Doris and Johnny settled back each in a dark corner for a good rest.

  • When Mike had furnished his share of the evening's entertainment and had frightened the black servants out of a year's growth in the bargain, he was marched back to his place in a dark corner and it was time to talk of other things.

  • And that night, between inspections of the guards, a silent band of prison conspirators met in a dark corner of the barracks.

  • Roger nudged Jimmy as they hid in a dark corner, and Jimmy signaled back that he recognized the import of the talk.

  • Wilbur was bound and gagged, being dragged to a dark corner of the cave.

  • They have divested us of all our portable property save a few cigarettes which we have secreted in a dark corner, and there is nothing to be had in the way of refreshment for love or money.

  • The black attendants then spread the fragments of carpet, place the chairs, and retire to a dark corner of the building.

  • Subsequently, this individual leads the waiter into a dark corner of the cafĂ©, where accounts are squared; by which we know that before the refreshments were ordered he had arranged with the garden about payment.

  • When the two little girls entered the house the boy slipped in behind them and secreted himself in a dark corner.

  • I could gather provisions enough for the winter, as well as the squirrels do, and if I were to live in a dark corner of the stable or the cow shed, I shouldn't freeze to death.

  • They were delighted to think they had found such a fine night harbour, when one of them caught sight of some shining, green dots, which glittered in a dark corner.

  • The Capataz, remembering that he was totally unarmed, stepped aside, and, effacing himself upright in a dark corner, waited with his eyes fixed on the door.

  • Old Viola walked out of a dark corner, and, without a word, emptied upon the table out of his hollowed palms a few dry crusts of bread and half a raw onion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dark corner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cents per; dark and; dark background; dark bluish; dark clouds; dark color; dark colored; dark forest; dark green; dark ground; dark hair; dark lady; dark lane; dark lantern; dark lines; dark night; dark purple; dark room; dark spots; dark yellow; darker shade; darkness came; four tons; left open; long tyme; native industry