fainter

That makes it appear about six times brighter than Pluto, but still far fainter than any star we can see with the unaided eye.

The younger, older, and more sensitive you are, the fainter your fingerprints, Lightflower told me in an interview.

But, she continues,  “the earlier in life the drugs are begun, the fewer and fainter those traces and markers are likely to be.”

South Carolina offer the non-Mitts their last faint hope, but that hope grows fainter by the hour.

Already they had turned the crest of the hill, and fainter and fainter came the sound of the chase.

The cloud coals grow fainter—now purple; and now in ashes they float away into the chill blue.

Presently the thunder grew fainter, and rumbled away down the valley, and the rain spent itself.

Worse than all, it grew fainter and fainter and soon became little more than a trail.

The clanking of the keys grows fainter and fainter; the sound of footsteps dies away.