ill-lit

I descend and find a labyrinth ill-lit by fifteen-watt bulbs.

City Basements William Doreski 2011

A man who hadn't been in the kitchen earlier came in and Anthony had recognised the lean, baffled features of the man waiting on the ill-lit station platform the night the train was so very late.

William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter 2011

Sometime between the wars, the old Shilkie had been converted to a transient hotel where the indigent would while away their days in shabby, ill-lit quarters.

Abomination at the Shilkie Andrew Edwards 2011

In the middle of the world-wide war against terrorism, Congress has one good and palpable reason to concern itself with immigration reform: Illegal immigrants have fashioned a demi-monde, vast and ill-lit, within which our enemies can move with little fear of detection.

Immigration 2010

Rain had fallen, and he shivered as he stood in the damp, ill-lit courtyard, drawing on his gloves and fastening his cloak as he waited for his horse to be produced.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

Rain had fallen, and he shivered as he stood in the damp, ill-lit courtyard, drawing on his gloves and fastening his cloak as he waited for his horse to be produced.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

"When's the last time you washed your windows?" he asked in greeting, surveying the ill-lit room.

The Door Kari Gremore 2010

I started playing the trombone with menus in ill-lit restaurants until I would have needed the ape-arms of Tug Bitler to see the entrées.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

At the end, in the ill-lit lounge area, three chairs shared a table and a  single microphone hung down from the ceiling.

Now Donal Thompson 2010

I started playing the trombone with menus in ill-lit restaurants until I would have needed the ape-arms of Tug Bitler to see the entrées.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010