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

In the dimness of a small theater inside Venice’s former City Hall, poet Sesshu Foster was in the spotlight, haloed against a velvet stage as he read aloud to an audience of 50.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2022

Kino stared into the dimness of the little office, for his eyes were squeezed from the outside glare.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck