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The darkening cinematic mood that has engulfed even 007 won't be allowed to bedim the Dolby Theatre.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2013

Ash and dust bedim the sky, blocking the sun's light.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

No less'ning ray Will e'er bedim thy natal morn, Or usher in the unhallowed day When we forget that thou wert born!

From The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems by George W. Doneghy

What though a few clouds bedim and deform "the innocent brightness of the new-born day?"

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

But tears, rough, manly tears, for the dead, Like dews of night bedim the glass, With throbbing hearts and lifted hands, We name him—“Dowling! of the Pass.”

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

She even transmitted a soupçon of the old glow to the bedimmed office of the presidency in the television series “24.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2010

What is so sad as a Kim bedimmed?

From Time Magazine Archive

Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere,—if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity; with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

Here is another illustration: Those lovely eyes bedimmed, Those lovely eyes be dammed.

From Cupology How to Be Entertaining by Clara

Aunt Catherine's bedimmed eyesight and impaired hearing had prevented her from discovering before this that her nurse was none other than Morlene.

From Unfettered A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

But he thought also of the beauty of Maria, of the sweetness of her smile, and of the tears of voiceless gratitude which he had seen bedimming the lustre of her bright eyes.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII by John Mackay Wilson

As cloth after cloth is removed, the light seems to grow brighter and stronger, and yet it has changed not, the change being in the removal of the confining and bedimming coverings.

From A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

Mrs. Fairfax placed her hands upon their heads, tears bedimming her own eyes, and blessed them, and then kissed her daughter as she was about to leave the room.

From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers

The daylight from the street then entered in a lurid stream, bedimming the glare of lamps and candles.

From A Love Episode by Émile Zola

There is not about Old Age one blessing more deserving gratitude to Heaven, than the gradual bedimming of memory brought on by years.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson