dimness
Example Sentences
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Ms. Haynes brings back the poetry of time, reintroducing terms such as “gloaming” and “dimpse,” which mean the dimness of twilight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Fifteen dancers sit in dimness, supervised by some kind of overseer.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Although the evolution and spectra of the event resembled a binary star merger, its dimness pointed to a star-planet merger instead.
From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2023
Scrutiny of Tuesday’s skies, in their unrelieved dimness, showed few of the bright delights of the season.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023
Surely the sleeper hadn’t woken already: in the dimness Ama could make out the shape of the sleeping bag, the lighter patch that was the girl’s hair, and the curve of her sleeping dæmon.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
