dim
Example Sentences
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They would also often meet for dinner, sometimes lavish meals, gossiping and bantering over dim sum, pizza or claypot rice.
From BBC
If Christmas tree sales are anything to go by, U.S. consumers aren’t pulling the plug on holiday shopping this year—but they might be dimming the lights.
He wants his family and community, as they grapple with the beach massacre, to know that “when events like this happen, it doesn’t dim or extinguish our lights.”
From Los Angeles Times
The Kansas City Chiefs’ dim playoff hopes were on the verge of being completely extinguished when something even more devastating happened:
But the future is dimming for those in Doral with temporary status.
From Salon
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