| total darkness | 3.49 | Total darkness enveloped me. | ||
| complete darkness | 1.84 | So complete darkness can cause panic. | ||
| gathering darkness | 1.65 | A gathering darkness over a white plain. | ||
| pre-dawn darkness | 1.38 | The crab boats leave in pre-dawn darkness and return in late afternoon. | ||
| predawn darkness | 1.05 | The drama unfolded in the predawn darkness. | ||
| inky darkness | 0.66 | Then, in the inky darkness, it was time to tell scary stories. | ||
| deep darkness | 0.59 | Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. | ||
| eternal darkness | 0.59 | In front of the Althosian system lay only eternal darkness. | ||
| surrounding darkness | 0.46 | At times she seems about to edge into the surrounding darkness. | ||
| eerie darkness | 0.39 | Up front, flight attendant Robin Fech opened her eyes to an eerie darkness. | ||
| cold darkness | 0.33 | Outside, the bright lights and multicoloured signs blinked and gleamed in the cold darkness. | ||
| cool darkness | 0.33 | Cool darkness is needed for germination. | ||
| lengthening darkness | 0.33 | Thunderstorms diminish in late summer as the lower atmosphere cools in response to lengthening darkness and lower sun angles. | ||
| impending darkness | 0.26 | Illuminating the gloaming with his firepower, Sampras fought off both Rafter and impending darkness. | ||
| near darkness | 0.26 | We quickly unpack and set up tents in the near darkness. | ||
| nighttime darkness | 0.26 | After circling the airport to burn off fuel, he headed for a runway in the nighttime darkness in a thunderstorm. | ||
| pitch-black darkness | 0.26 | At first she found the pitch-black darkness of the Motabeng night terrifying. | ||
| polar darkness | 0.26 | Polar darkness and extreme cold means people do not leave the South Pole from February through October. | ||
| relative darkness | 0.26 | The relative darkness insures that the myriad tiny white flowers are not washed out. | ||
| stygian darkness | 0.26 | She lowered her head and entered the Stygian darkness. |