1.   The virtual disappearance of the moon glow then lights up the stars in the darkened sky.

2.   Merlin, the wizard, is said to have been born under such a darkened sky here near the end of the First Century.

3.   Terrorized, naked and clinging to the craggy mountain top where they are stranded, five beleaguered souls face a merciless rain of catalogs from a darkened sky.

4.   The darkened skies were the result of suspended dust several thousand feet above the ground.

5.   The Ferris wheels are shooting neon rainbows into the darkened sky, and the bungee-jumpers plunge into pools of colored light.

6.   The shuttle climbed steeply into a darkened sky on an easterly trajectory.

7.   While freezing rain glazed Pittsburgh on Thursday night, lightning flashed across the darkened sky, casting the icy landscape under surreal strobes of flickering light.

8.   Tear gas and smoke darkened skies over the capital as pitched street battles left at least four confirmed dead and dozens injured.

9.   Tear gas and smoke darkened skies over the capital as pitched street battles left at least five dead and dozens injured.