Sentences with dusky
dusk·y
D d - Heavy gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks.
- ...dusky pink carpet.
- At 16 she was willowy, not too tall, and dreamy-eyed; her skin was dusky and unlined, her nose a little snubbed.
- Or dusky shade round the body of the Planet which very much disturbed the times of the contacts particularly the two internal ones.
- The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.
- 1911, James Creelman, Diaz: Master of Mexico[2], D. Appleton and Company, page v : In the raw attempt to apply the perfected institutions of Anglo-Saxon civilization to the descendants of the dusky races which inhabited Mexico before the discovery of America by Columbus, the Mexican statesmen of 1824 put the principles of democratic government to a terrible ordeal.
- We live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.
- The 2002 cabernet franc Icewine is attractive to look at with its dusky rose colour, but the flavour intensity just isn't there.
- This man in shock has a silver colored dusky skin tone.
- The bridesmaids wore strapless silk cocktail dresses in a dusky gum blossom pink from Nicole-Michelle Couture.
- SYNONYMY NOTE: dusky suggests a darkness of color or an absence of light, verging on blackness [dusky twilight]; swarthy, tawny both refer only to color, , swarthy suggesting a dark brown verging on black [a swarthy complexion] and tawny, a yellowish brown or tan [tawny hair]