An ill-lit doorway gave on to a steep stone staircase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral In Berlin]

All was clear this evening but the area remained ill-lit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rude Awakening]

The ill-lit room was rapidly illuminated by a corporate blush.    From Wordnik.com.  [between silk and cyanide]

Nor was the room as gloomy and ill-lit as An'desha had anticipated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Breaking]

She drew her cloak about her and stepped full into the ill-lit room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic May Return]

The portal filled with the image of a dark, ill-lit, stone-walled room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Widows and Orphans] Reference

They made a pair that many would have remarked, but for the ill-lit streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference

Ethel angry, dishevelled and tear-stained in that ill-lit, untidy little room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

Delilah and I tore from the room and onto the Blood Oranges ill-lit stairwell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Butterfly] Reference

Above the dirty, ill-lit streets, above the black roofs, stretched the dark starry sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

It was a little dusty and ill-lit but charming in a not-touched-since-1957 sort of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm A Stranger Here Myself]

He drove through the ill-lit and winding streets, threading his way further into the maze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hide And Seek]

"When's the last time you washed your windows?" he asked in greeting, surveying the ill-lit room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door] Reference

I sat indoors in the ill-lit downstairs kitchen, with my foot bandaged, and mused darkly and read.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Days of the Comet] Reference

The room was ill-lit by torches resting in metal holders fastened to the smoke-smeared marble walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Krynn]

The lock was a joke, and he let himself out into the ill-lit alleyway beyond, leaving the gates ajar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

I finished dressing and the three of us hurried out of the cell and headed down the ill-lit corridor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

Jessamine struggled to her knees, peering through the ill-lit darkness as Alastair suddenly loomed large.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Prince of Swords by Anne Stuart] Reference

He clambered listlessly through a bulkhead door and found himself in a larger corridor, though still ill-lit.    From Wordnik.com.  [So long, and thanks for all the fish]

This was more in the nature of a gloomy, forbidding, ill-lit, stoutly secure incarceration chamber for fe males.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guardsman Of Gor]

Edinburgh was a small city-no more than the single High Street, with the tiny, ill-lit wynds and closes opening off it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

At the end, in the ill-lit lounge area, three chairs shared a table and a  single microphone hung down from the ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now] Reference

It was a long, rather low, ill-lit room, full of murmuring voices and with three rows of beds surprisingly close together.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Poor Die] Reference

It was half past four when she walked into the ill-lit office, where Sergeant Simon was alone except for one young policeman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret in Montmartre]

For instance, on my campus, we have a group of women escorts who you can call to walk you through dangerous or ill-lit areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women and the Invisible Fist] Reference

It was too long for an infantryman, it was clumsy, and it was stamped out with hundreds more in an ill-lit Birmingham factory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Sword]

O ui on CD ia! taken up with the ill-lit alleyway at the south end of the squa He would want to be careful to hide that from her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Suitable Vengeance]

The paintings of the Venetian masters had darkened in ill-lit churches, the shadows had become murky, there were too many figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference

At the hall an hour later I found her in a dingy dressing room, one of three ill-lit cubicles on the second level of the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]

With much stumbling, groaning and fumbling about in the ill-lit corridors, they made their way to the ground floor of the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Presence of the Enemy]

But these were far-off things, remote and unreal down the long, ill-lit vista of the suburban street which swallowed up Ethel nightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

As Tracchia rounded the corner the contempt on his face gave way to consternation when he saw that the ill-lit street ahead was empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way to Dusty Death]

Within moments the three of them, darkly cloaked and moving like shadows through the ill-lit streets, were on their way to Kethry's room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oathbreaker]

"I shouldn't be doing this," he said quietly to Joanna one evening in the ill-lit sitting room of some isolated manor deep in the Sykerst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

It was late, and few people were about in the narrow, ill-lit streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference

The place was no longer ill-lit and shabby, but illumined as if by a burst of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Net] Reference

His topic was as dispiriting as the ill-lit environ chosen for a no-news press briefing.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

That's despite a large proportion of it apparently being 'ill-lit, grimy and not worth a visit'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Londonist] Reference