dimness
Example Sentences
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Mr. Broderick, himself a sometime movie star, brings a slyly funny air of noblesse oblige that dovetails amusingly with Jay’s pompous, blinkered dimness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
The colors are a reddish black, a Renaissance ultramarine blue and a blackish burgundy that Zumthor hoped would conjure a cave-like dimness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
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
Herders roped off alleys to pen their goats, which stared out of the dimness with rectangular pupils.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
