How to Use dark age in a Sentence

dark age

noun
  • Retinoids may smoothen fine lines, wrinkles, and even dark age spots.
    — Hallie Gould, Health, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The dark age ideas of work as drudgery and sweat equity no longer hold up.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Such a collapse would usher in nothing less than a new dark age.
    — James Kirchick, Slate Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
  • And that wasn’t the dark ages; that edition came out in 2005.
    — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • During the early part of those dark ages, Dad carried the load.
    — Kevin Helliker, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
  • If that isn’t a call for a return to the dark ages—literally—what is?
    — George Melloan, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Punishing this whistleblower for doing his job sends us back to the dark ages.
    — Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Houston Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Our votes in this election will determine if our country survives or slides into a new dark age.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2020
  • If the Oscars want to come out of the dark ages, the Academy will forward her next call.
    — Bridget Read, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2019
  • The Mad Max-style trailer reveals the end of the world and commencement of a new dark age.
    — Deirdre Durkan, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The dark ages of the '70s - when goaltenders were typically left to sort things out on their own - this is not.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Kabul could fall to the Taliban, ushering a new dark age for Afghan women and girls.
    — Stephen Collinson and Maeve Reston, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Another aspect of this new digital dark age comes from not being able to see what others are doing.
    — Gina Neff, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Afghans are once again sliding into a new dark age of repression and persecution of women.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Twenty years into the new century, the world is gripped with worry over how to deal with a deadly pandemic out of the dark ages.
    — Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The chance that our global civilization shall suffer a new dark age from a Miyake event seems remote for the time being.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Bringing the women back to the Tour de France was an opportunity to rescue the sport from the dark ages.
    — Kathryn Bertine, Outside Online, 22 Aug. 2019
  • From this perspective, Jamal’s murder shows how our part of the world—the Middle East—is being left in the dark ages.
    — Hatice Cengiz, Time, 2 Oct. 2019
  • In the dark ages when Fey's film first came out, landlines ruled and three-way calling was the latest technological advancement for mean girls.
    — Erika Milvy, latimes.com, 2 May 2018
  • Astronomers continued to search for neutral hydrogen signals from the universe’s pre-galactic dark age.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Lukas Feigelfeld’s arty folk-horror debut is a grim fairy tale about women shunned and vilified as witches during Europe’s dark ages.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The most depressing aspect of the information dark age is the collective amnesia.
    — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Slavery was present in European as well as in the Islamic Ottoman empires throughout the dark ages.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Cosmologists call this period the dark ages (see ‘An Earth’s-eye view of the early Universe’).
    — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The Middle Ages are misremembered as a dark age of torture and religious fanaticism.
    — Eric Weiskott, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
  • These events could affect an area up to the size of the United States for days or perhaps months—a terrifying prospect, but thankfully far from the global dark age of the show.
    — Kate Greene, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
  • In the pre-Internet dark age, the company was the unrivaled supermarket of toys, the arbiter of fads and tastes that shaped the entire industry.
    — Fortune, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Advertisement After that ‘73 title, New York and the Knicks entered a dark age.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 14 June 2026
  • Get our daily newsletter Vodafone’s protracted dark ages stem from a problem common throughout Europe.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The next few months and years will be critical in determining which direction — forward into the future or backward into a new dark age — the country, and arguably the world, will head.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Aug. 2025

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