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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

Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.

From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

And now the mists of passion had ceased to bedim his mental vision, his eyes were opened, that he saw and repented most sincerely the past guilt.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Herbert, Henry William

While hot tears bedim the vision   Of dear friends who mourn his death, May they manifest decision   By the wondrous power of Faith, In belief that those who sleep Safe in Jesus shall not weep.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

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

Old Jock, for once at any rate, had had his weather eye bedimmed.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.

Brock shone with a refulgence that bedimmed all expectations.

From The Husbands of Edith by McCutcheon, George Barr

Many have regarded it as the bedimmed relic of a brilliant primeval revelation.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

It seemed as if never so thin a gauze had been drawn over the face of the sun, just faintly bedimming, without obscuring it.

From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Harland, Henry

It is precisely those superstitions which hang about your mind like bedimming clouds, my Romola, that make one great reason why I could wish we were two hundred leagues from Florence.

From Romola by Eliot, George

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 Wilson, John Lyde

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 Caruthers, William A. (Alexander)

Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch