faint

I saw canopies of Iraqi flags, bodies out every window, everyone dancing to a faint hip-hop pulse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“Apocalypse Now” on the 405 is not for the faint of heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

The findings challenge a long standing view of how visual signals travel through the retina and may help explain how we detect faint objects or see in low light.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

"My shifts at work landed on the same days, too. During my morning shower, I felt faint; I had to be realistic and call in sick. My body was completely exhausted, aching and cramping."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

I thought of my school shirt, with its faint smudges from Mawuli’s fingers.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Yasser regularly faints when she tries to stand.

From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026

When Louise, angling for attention, participates in her church’s Inner Beauty pageant, her talent is holding her breath until she faints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

O’Sullivan determined that Darcie was suffering psychosomatic seizures and faints, very real but not caused by a physical problem.

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

Played by Colin Firth, Dr Swire faints and falls to the floor.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

What if he’s stuck or trapped somewhere, and faints under the mighty sun?

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

As brands go through creative directors like tissues, the connection to what made a house beloved seems to get fainter and fainter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Most cell phones now use two GPS frequency bands -- one that is older and fainter, and a second that is newer and stronger.

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

Upcoming eROSITA all-sky scans will allow astronomers to observe even fainter and more distant quasars.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 27, 2025

However, visibility could be affected by bright moonlight from the recent Sturgeon Moon, making it harder to see the fainter streaks.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025

Far away, growing faint and fainter, came wafting back the last sound of the tune they played.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

"I really haven't the faintest idea as to what I've done," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

By the late 1960s, "he wasn't in the faintest a shy person", Kasmin recalled.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

The results revealed how the faintest breeze, just 0.2 meters per second, combined with higher voltage further increased the likelihood of a worm hitting its target.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025

Is there the faintest suggestion in the room that, if you do this, you won’t get older?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2025

The FBI was learning, but it still had only the faintest idea of the enemy it faced on American soil.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

I learned about chocolatines last year from the Journal’s Joshua Robinson, who fainted from embarrassment when I walked into a Toulouse patisserie and ordered a “chocolatini,” like it was happy hour at an airport Chili’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

One 32-year-old Berliner, Diane, told AFP she had fainted from the heat once already, despite drinking three litres of water.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

She got hot standing at the grill and fainted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

When someone fainted in the Oval Office in November, he barely reacted.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026

One of Ethel’s neighbors told her about it in the market and Ethel fainted dead away, pitching into a row of preserves.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

For all its immortal ideas and all those outsized news reports of people fainting, “The Exorcist” could’ve faded from memory if so much of what came after didn’t prove to be a cheap imitation.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

As it worsens, however, it can lead to fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath, fainting, heart failure, and in some cases premature death.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

"There was no warning," Kylie recalled, saying she "probably stopped shy of fainting" when she saw Madonna's outfit.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Does anyone need to lie down on an official FIFA-issued fainting couch?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Her dæmon fell limp on her shoulder and flapped his gorgeous wings once or twice before fainting, and the woman herself seemed to be unable to stand fully upright.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman