faint
Example Sentences
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In other words, the coronagraph acts like an artificial Moon, blocking the Sun's bright surface to let scientists continuously observe its faint outer corona -something the real Moon does only during eclipses.
From BBC
It’s all quite moving, and there is a faint glimmer of hope that “Hamnet” will stick its landing.
From Salon
He warned me that just the other day a woman on a different crew had overheated from the sun, fainted and had to go to the hospital.
From Los Angeles Times
“A nearly eight-hour drama about the Russian intelligentsia that received mixed reviews when it premiered in London in 2002, ‘The Coast of Utopia’ isn’t for the theatrical faint of heart,” cautioned Times critic McNulty.
From Los Angeles Times
What alerted her instead was a faint smell of smoke.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
