How to Use go dark in a Sentence

go dark

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  • The moment a pet bolts past the last tower, the tracker goes dark.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 8 July 2026
  • Within five days after the satellites went dark, there would be a crash in orbit.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The anchor of my entire day—my money, my messages, my way home—went dark.
    — Ryan Pettit, Time, 7 July 2026
  • The livestream captured the moment of the bullet’s impact and then went dark.
    — Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The worst four months were spent completely alone in a small cell, beneath a bright light that never went dark.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
  • There s not totality — the sky does not go dark and the sun’s corona does not appear.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • When a facility this power-hungry goes dark, the loss is not the wiring.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • String lights glowed overhead as the San Gabriel Mountains went dark behind them.
    — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • The crowd erupted, some cheering and others brought to tears, a collective wave of emotion rolling over us as the sky went dark.
    — Annissa Durar, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Chef and founder Bruce Moffett is stepping away from the space, but the address isn’t going dark for long.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The room suddenly went dark, and Depp — still dressed as Scrooge — emerged, guided by the light of his candle.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 July 2026
  • The only sound that matters around here is the cheers accompanying one more title before the game goes dark.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
  • Shortly after, Polk scrubbed his Instagram account clean and went dark.
    — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Behind the open doors, the figure is nearly black, the wood gone dark from centuries of incense until the carving reads more as shape than detail.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • While the show may have gone dark for good, a piece of its history is lighting up a corner of West Hollywood.
    — Alys Martinez, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • After a brief back-and-forth, the video shows the employee’s hand reaching toward the camera before Varela’s phone goes dark.
    — Thom Jensen, NBC news, 20 July 2026
  • Utilities need to test those procedures before screens go dark and alarms stop reporting correctly.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • During the Great Depression, fireworks shows went dark, and Grucci found a side job playing drums in a band.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Earlier in the hour, some viewers reported seeing garbled images on the screen before going dark.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The series’ creators spoke about Big Bang OGs relishing going dark in the spinoff.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Keeping the party going after the final whistle Don’t let the experience end when the scoreboard goes dark.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • Now, as the center’s leadership reconsiders a path forward, nearly every stage has gone dark for the foreseeable future.
    — Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • The Kauffman Stadium grandstand lights went dark and music preceded his arrival.
    — Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Streaks of light fly down the carriage in one dueling scene, and in the show’s climax, the lights go dark when a dementor — played by a hooded actor puppeteering the creature strapped to their torso — floats down the aisle.
    — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • Officials traced his cell phone data, reporting that his phone went dark during the hours of the crime, and then reconnected to cellular towers after the fatal incident.
    — Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • As malls and suburbia leeched retailers from downtown, the Metropolitan went dark in 1979.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2026
  • With Raj teetering on the edge of madness in Season 1, are Big Bang OGs relishing going dark in the spinoff?
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 July 2026
  • The county’s Flock cameras soon went dark, cutting off Dane County data from the 140 other law enforcement agencies that had once accessed it.
    — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Due to the ongoing conflict in the region, there are reports of GPS jamming, AIS spoofing and vessels going dark.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Solar eclipse watchers have for centuries vividly described an eerie phenomenon known as shadow bands that appears just before and after totality — the period when the moon completely blocks the sun’s light and the sky goes dark.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

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