How to Use in the dark in a Sentence

in the dark

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  • And, customers would not be left in the dark, heat or cold for days or weeks.
    — Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Boards, for their part, may be in the dark as to how much more change is coming.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Agent Kim has kept his daughter in the dark about his dark past.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 27 July 2026
  • Shooting this show is like being on a roller coaster in the dark.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Lying there in the dark, holding her hand at the end of our trip, fear didn’t feel lonely.
    — John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
  • It's been two weeks and two days since the damaging storms for a city that was left in the dark for too long.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • What strikes him is that the app users aren't always strangers lurking in the dark corners of the web.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Others are opting to cross in the dark, popping up once clear of the waterway.
    — Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • The ruse reportedly left even some White House aides in the dark.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But more than 83,000 buildings and homes remained in the dark.
    — Lauren Victory, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • For the thousands who remain in the dark and feel isolated, the giveaway helped.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Michigan led the numbers, with more than 305,000 in the dark.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • Gutierrez opened the door to the back room to find Richardson and her daughter, then 16, in the dark.
    — Molly Hensley-Clancy, ProPublica, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Walking in the dark, on roads without sidewalks, or in inclement weather is no safer than riding.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2026
  • Another bright spot in the dark year has been today's hurler, Brandon Young.
    — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • That single change turns debugging in the dark into a solvable problem.
    — Jacqueline Destefano-Tangorra, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • However, when these deals are struck in the dark, communities revolt.
    — Melody Birmingham, Fortune, 23 July 2026
  • The officers also have drones and helicopters equipped to track people hiding in the dark.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • Looking through the nearby woods in the dark, they are chased by Leatherface, who kills Franklin with his chainsaw.
    — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 July 2026
  • Maybe two or three groups of hoaxers out there at once, bumping into each other in the dark and scaring the scales off one another.
    — Star-Telegram Staff, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 July 2026
  • Bright stars or planets such as Venus may shine in the dark sky, and the air temperature will drop as the sun disappears.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Finance is left chasing payments, managing risk and forecasting in the dark.
    — Ashish Srimal, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Fortunately, keeping communities safe does not have to mean leaving them in the dark.
    — Jasmine Garland, The Conversation, 7 July 2026
  • Thousands will spend another night in the dark as ComEd rushes to restore power.
    — Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 29 July 2026
  • Another light show game is the Black Light Tumble Tower that glows in the dark.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Some bat species are so mysterious that scientists are still in the dark about their population status at all.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Spirit and more recent eaglets have been left unbanded, perhaps because the public is better off left in the dark.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
  • But the exact source of those dollars remains hidden, leaving voters in the dark about who is bankrolling the plan to overhaul the state’s tax structure.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
  • Nothing beats the thrill of chasing the blinking bugs in grandma’s backyard in the dark, zooming around with Mason jars in hand.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 July 2026
  • Many communities like Gary have been in the dark for almost two weeks since the devastating derecho tore through.
    — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

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