His heart sank at the thought of going out into the bleak darkness.

He had spent too many years trying to comfort Cade by playing the prankster, by joking his way through the bleak darkness.

A lonely traffic light hung far ahead, a spot of red in a bleak darkness.

A bleak darkness had settled in him, though, and now he wore a scowl as often as not.

For a moment bleak darkness filled her mind.

I stared through the bleak darkness.

It was his duty as the father as well, but that was something he thought about only when he awakened in the bleak darkness.

She got up and walked to the window, and stared over the wide bleak darkness with unseeing eyes.

It was pitch black outside, nothing but the SUV's high beams to break the bleak darkness.

Miles Bennell sat in darkness, troubled and bleak.