Definition of DARKROOM

Examples of darkroom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web These nanoparticles are photosensitive, resembling the silver chloride contact printing paper still used in today's darkrooms. — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, "After 172 Years, We Now Know How the First Color Photograph Was Made," 1 Apr. 2020 Lyons found healing in the darkroom, bringing images to life in trays of restorative chemicals. — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, "Photographer’s portraits display San Antonio’s diverse population," 17 Feb. 2020 Technical skills and a knowledge of f-stops, exposure, and shutter speeds, and the use of a darkroom, have been replaced by smart phones, apps, and computer screens. — Eric Dusenbery, al, "Meet 5 Alabama artists embracing tactile arts in a digital world," 23 Dec. 2019 Hours in a darkroom gave way to hours sifting through the thousands of photographs to find the best. — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "The first family of Green Bay Packers photography presents decades of iconic visuals in new book," 14 Nov. 2019 When the Civil War started, his use of a mobile studio and darkroom enabled vivid battlefield photographs that brought home the reality of war to the public. — courant.com, "Community News For The South Windsor Edition," 1 Nov. 2019 Photos are converted into negatives and printed in black and white on silver gelatin paper using traditional photographic printing processes in the darkroom at Third Man Records headquarters and download higher resolution. — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, "ACL Music Festival 2019: See the Best Artist & Fan Reactions on Social Media," 5 Oct. 2019 Officers approached the darkroom where Clarke was hiding, armed with their duty weapons. — AZCentral.com, "Police shootings in Arizona," 22 Oct. 2019 Serious devotees still operate home darkrooms, but those aren’t a public resource. — al, "Lights out: Mobile has new darkroom for B&W film fans," 18 Oct. 2019

These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'darkroom.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Learn More about darkroom

Dictionary Entries near darkroom

Statistics for darkroom

Cite this Entry

“Darkroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/darkroom. Accessed 9 Jul. 2020.

Which of the following words is not a synonym for ‘a young person’?

Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words?

TAKE THE QUIZ

Test Your Knowledge - and learn some interesting things along the way.

TAKE THE QUIZ

darkroom