darkness
The darkness of the night lingered in the sky.
As a noun. The perpetrator quietly stalked away under the cover of darkness.
Darkness engulfed me as I stepped into the dim lit basement.
The ocean floor is in perpetual darkness.
The wolf stared at me from out of the darkness.
The inner reaches of the cave were in perpetual darkness.
"I blundered on in my explanation" "we were blundering around in the darkness".
In the King James version the word - darkness - appears 162 times.
My cat likes to slink around in the darkness where I cannot see him.
I could not find my glasses in the darkness so I felt my way to the light switch.
You just used the word acolytes in a sentence. Even saying, "can the word acolytes be used in a sentence", you are using that word in a sentence.
As the sun went down, Santa welcomed the cool darkness that would hide his sleigh as he brought toys to all the children.