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Sentence Examples In one or two instances there has appeared, when the light was totally excluded, a faint lambent flame bickering over them. A faint air of lavendered family drama, hangs over proceedings, but the unusual context provides its own stimulus. The first punch zings past my head leaving only the faint hiss of air swishing through my left ear. For photography, use a fast-speed film, as the zodiacal light is a fairly faint phenomenon. A short, faint horizontal ridge occurs ventral to the depression and slightly anterior to the maxillary root of the zygoma. A faint glow at the far end resolved itself into the lights of two lanterns. There is also a faint undertone of tobacco and a slight hint of dry sherry. The paste etched the glass very lightly, giving a clear if somewhat faint design without the deep linear outline of the first process. The sun had risen above the horizon, and threw a faint light over the mountains. You could hear the faint sounds of the fans in the stadium and the announcer announcing us over the intercom. They frantically retuned their transistors, but all they got was a faint signal from southern pirate Radio London. Kat turned to him to see that he was giving her a faint smile, which she returned a second later. From a faint warmth through a decided warmth it passes to a definite heat, first pleasant, then dully painful, then sharply painful. It was still painful to think of the Pied Piper's disappearance, but the shock had faded to a faint ache. John was almost faint from hunger, his feet throbbed and his legs burned, and he was exhausted. Jane awakens again later in the afternoon, faint with hunger and still numb from emotion. The protracted climax, to a faint wash of sound, is a tableau in which the motionless dancers slowly levitate. There was a faint possibility she might have died from the resultant fumes. In the faint post-sunset afterglow, we hurried on down the mountain and back to camp. A faint curl of smoke rose at his feet, the remains of the fire that had died down late into the night. Show More Sentences They heard the faint ring of the bell in the background, and Melanie looked up. The distal half of the shaft has a faint longitudinal ridge running along the midline of the anterior face. The only faint worry still nagging at the back of his mind was about his dream. I wanted to sleep a little longer, but the faint light of the sun had awakened me. What faint light was in the room was extinguished as pure blackness engulfed her. The cramped room was dark and gloomy, a faint stream of gentle light streaming through the grimy window. The spaceship traced out a complex path across the desk, leaving a faint red screw-thread line floating in the air. Her face was dotted with faint freckles and she wore a pale pink blush over the faded spots. A shadow seemed to cross his face as his vivid blue eyes took on a faint look of regret. Winter night closed in around me and I heard the faint sound of church bells chiming the hour. The child's cry of concern went on unheard, a faint whisper amidst the busy streets of a crowded metropolis. The sun was setting over the horizon, and the skies were stained with faint pinks and lavenders and blues. Is there then even a faint possibility of sensitising kids to the utopian ideals of freedom, justice and equality? To his extreme surprise, Ramirez looked confused, and then pleased, a very faint blush tinting his cheeks a light pink. Lifting up the sleeve of my kimono, I pointed at the white bandages still wrapped around my arm, which still had faint tinges of pink to it. You'll choke on dust and faint in the heat of a fierce desert sun that beats down from a jaundiced sky. Doors slam shut, waves beat against the hull, and faint voices call for the characters to meet their doom. She was glad that a faint flicker of guilt passed over Ella's features, but it vanished as quickly as it had appeared. He semaphores his designerlyness by wearing flouncy shirts and exuding a faint whiff of camp. Rain beat against her window, and she could hear faint musical melodies drifting through the air to her from the ballroom. Show More Sentences I woke up the next day to the faint smell of lilacs and the sweet melodic sound of Alna humming a song in the shower. He wasn't conscious of the faint sound of a car engine ticking over, a little way up the street outside. His skin glistened under the faint glow of light that was trying to get past through a mountain of thunderclouds. In its grapey bouquet one can detect a faint muscat-like undertone while the easy-drinking palate is fresh and medium dry. And then, over the rustling her legs made in the grass, she heard a faint crackling, thudding noise. Behind him all was dark, the faint outline of trees on the horizon swaying perilously below a threatening mass of cloud. The white of the barren room was a stark contrast to the blackness of the hole, up through which drifted faint scuffling sounds. Behind that sound, hidden in it, was the thin, faint sound of a woman's distant scream, coming from inside the building. The once bright sun dulled behind a sheet of faint mist, and many of the busy servants had a hood drawn up against the ever thickening fog. Her lips were pursed and faint wrinkle lines could be made out around her eyes. Gonnardite typically has a silky, almost opalescent luster, and it may exhibit a faint concentric banding. He yawned, and when he opened his mouth, he heard the distant sounds of surf booming against a beach, the faint screech of seagulls. His daughter and his ex scrapped in front of the crowd leading granny to faint at the service. She could hear the faint scrabble of feet as mice scurried through the walls. Moreover, in the Spanish material, a faint additional ridge exists between the marginal structure and the border. Minutes later, a faint reply suggests that a pair of Sokoke scops owls have roosted in the distance. Snuggled up in the near-dark, Matilda's backlight casting a faint glow on us, we decided to play a little game with her. The solitary candle burning on the table threw a faint light on her face, yet it was clear that she was very unhappy. His voice became faint to her, and her vision blurry, but as she could no longer make him out or hear his voice she couldn't tell what he said. As she walked through the door, sounds of tapping on the keyboards and the faint whirring of the photocopy machine greeted her. Show More Sentences Hubble can detect objects as faint as thirty-first magnitude, which is comparable to the sensitivity of much larger Earth-based telescopes. Badge marks applied with acid or sandblast is often so faint as to make them almost invisible. Dresses swished by, accompanied by long black tailcoats and the faint scent of perfume. The man on the ground had only a faint aura since he was no longer conscious. Guards standing to attention on parade could become quite faint in temperatures that could reach 100 degrees in summer. Arches hide studded oak doors, twisted iron grilles, smooth door lintels with faint carvings of faces, tools, dates. There was the chirp of birds, the soft rustle of a faint breeze in the trees. Outside, she could hear the faint sound of wood being chopped in conjunction with the soft rustle of leaves blowing in the wind. A very faint path runs downhill beside the fence, below a single bar fence and onwards to the end of the plantation. A faint buzz assaulted her ears, and the hairs on the back of her neck suddenly stood up. As you finally ascend the topmost mast, a faint vertigo assails you, but the adrenaline is buzzing. The truly native products of whiskey and stout were also represented, drawing a faint cheer from the lookers-on. Even if there is a faint fuzziness about the conclusion, there is none about the depiction of the unappeased ache of joblessness. She rubbed the towel over his knee, applying a faint pressure, which took his mind off the pain. I could hear the faint sounds of Van Morrison wafting from a car stereo in the parking lot. Taking a deep breath, she noticed the faint waft of a musky eau de cologne in the air. I can hear the kids playing outside in the street and I can smell faint wafts of curry drifting up to my window. As we took off, I could hear a faint quack of relief from Archie's new acquaintances. Raina opened her eyes, still seeing faint red and black dots blotching her vision. He waved a taxi down and ushered the woman, against her faint protests, into it. Show More Sentences He tried to cast a weak, faint smile at me, and confusedly, shyly, I lowered my eyes. But the penumbra is so faint that it cannot be recognized until just before the Moon enters the Earth's dark central shadow, the umbra. Reflections of white light from a bloomed lens then appear to be faint purple. Here he did the opposite, focusing and rousing his inner might until his eyes sparked like chill candles and cast a faint glare before him. Aylmer had reached the roof again, his faint shadow flickering across the lights as he dashed along the edge. There was a faint click in the earpiece as the radioman changed the channels. On the stairs faint bloodstains are visible and their origin unknown, but there are only three choices to what caused them. And those closing strains die away, and the finale begins, a faint chorus of distant voices singing in unison, the orchestra silent. Miraculously, both my eyes were untouched, but though Mahulda rinsed them with boric acid, I could not rid my vision of a faint roseate tint. If you adhered closely to the program through Phase 3, you probably have at least the faint outline of a six-pack now emerging. James is busy typing up his General Science homework on his computer when he hears a faint knocking on the door downstairs. A yellow variety which stains water and has a faint odor is adulterated with the horned-poppy. There is not a sound, apart from the faint wheeze of someone playing a harmonica. He was a 40-year-old man with silvery hair, small eyes, a small nose, a large mouth and faint wrinkles. Steve heard the rasp of oar-locks and the faint plash of a leisurely moving boat. The sergeant managed to whisper something in Leila's ear that was faint to both Daniel's and Lance's own hearing. At first sight, it was dark and only faint silhouettes could be seen with the faint light radiating from the doorway. There was a faint clip-clop sound too, as if the whistler was leading a horse. A faint twinkle was present in his eye, which grew more noticeable when he spoke. Her hand glowed a faint red and touched the person who was pulling her away. Show More Sentences A faint twinkle appeared under the mass of rubble occupying the centre part of the room. As the van engine was switched off, a faint keening sound was audible from the back of the vehicle. He blanched a moment, stumbling back to his chair, then sat, a faint smile on his face. A faint shimmer makes this aftersun cream as much make-up as it is skin care. They visited the keeper of the jewels and Maria pretended to faint to cause a distraction. There was a faint twang, followed by a quiet whiz, as a crossbow bolt flew through the air and collided with a thump into the side of the vent. I had the faint memory of dad coming into my room and carrying me to my bed and tucking me in but had thought I was dreaming. And it didn't help any that she was probably wearing something that would make his grandmother faint underneath her deceptively modest robe. As she made her slow journey across the room, she heard the faint sound of bare flesh slapping against the stone tile. The faint sound of the shower reached him as he continued through the downstairs cutting off lights and setting the coffee maker. As Bella Vista's shovelers work into the late-afternoon twilight, the faint chiming of church bells wafts over from the nearby town center. When she released him from that, he began his lines a little unsteadily, a faint tremor in his voice. A faint air of hopelessness overcomes McWhorter as our conversation winds down. He is about 41, with iron grey hair, round glasses, and a faint air of irony. Only a dog's faint bark or the occasional musical air-horn of a lorry at the junction would break the tranquillity. The skewer lay on a vol-au-vent filled with a lightly truffled fudge of sweetbread and kidney, a faint lemoniness danced on my tongue. There was a faint scar that sloped gently downwards from her index finger to her little finger. It was mid-afternoon when Arun knelt beside the fledgling, a faint hope kindling. She nearly leaps with joy feeling a faint wisp of his breath upon her sensitive skin. Mr Young, a trained first aider, felt a faint pulse and gave his wife the kiss of life after calling for an ambulance. Show More Sentences The faint smell of bacon and eggs was in the air, and Fat Louie rested comfortably at the foot of his bed as normal. If it's feeling windy and I smell faint woodsmoke, I expect colder weather within a couple days. The room was quite dark, for the dying embers on the hearth provided only a faint radiance. A faint clamour reached her ears, and she turned her gaze in its direction reflexively. It landed in the water with a splash, the only trace left of it the drops of water sparkling and a faint shimmer on the surface of the water. The muffled roar of passing traffic obscure the tinny, faint words being spoken. I bet that anyone who has passed this stage, will, at this point have a faint smile of fond reminiscence. A faint transversal line may indicate the posterior border of the seventh sternite. She looked up at the sky and began counting the faint stars that were fast appearing with the approach of night. After about an hour, he hears a faint tapping sound from inside the freezer and opens the door. Later, I fell asleep to the sound of Lhoucine gently coaxing his camel and faint ululating from a distant stone cottage. The crew braces for shock, the boat shudders and a giant plume of boat wash is the only mark left in the faint moonlight as the boat races forward into harm's way. Amber couldn't help the faint blush, or the weak smile, as she nodded. Since that time, considerable advances have been made in the science of underwater acoustics and the hardware used for the detection of faint signals. A faint scream from the corpse jolted the men from their shock. Offshore, great rafts of the seabirds rise and fall slowly on lazy swells, their white heads glowing in the faint afternoon sun beneath an approaching line of dark clouds. There is something about a person who has the integrity to live as they profess to believe that never fails to spark at least a faint twinge of admiration. A convex lens is fixated on a slanted ceiling emanating a faint amount of soft white light. The only sound is the faint whisper of the air-conditioning. A sensitive microphone placed close to the eardrum typically records a faint hum, but in many human subjects clear whistles can be picked up on top of the background buzz. Show More Sentences He looked at the street light that was a few houses down, and saw that the filament was still glowing a very faint red, as the heat slowly dissipated. We were so close I could smell the faint scent of his aftershave. With the cirrus they created a faint lattice of white against light blue. Not for the faint of heart, you must bring your A game to Whiskey Blue. The door opened and closed with a faint whoosh sound that surprised me. A faint round of applause built up around him, as some of the younger boys had gathered around to watch the mysterious stranger with the perfect aim. The faint sourness of a pumpernickel baguette combined with slightly shredded slow-cooked salmon, watercress, and wasabi aioli is a delicious contrast of flavors. Apparently it is a heady mix of desperation with underlying scents of money and old rope topped off with the faint whiff of sanctimonious windbaggery. He was alone in front of the television with his two pet dogs when the snack apparently went down the wrong way, causing him to faint and hit his head on the ground. Maxine flicked on the electric lantern she was carrying, filling the corridor with a crisp, bluish light that was strange after the faint orange illumination of the torches. Even with the new snow, I could see a faint trail zigzagging up the ridge. He picked up a faint resonation from deep within the heart of the city, in amongst the tall towers that populate the business district of most cities. Despite little hope that either could be saved, rescuers tried to revive them and after working for 30 minutes heard a faint heartbeat coming from Andreas. But this time I can plainly hear, through the rush of words, the faint rattle of hysteria that bespeaks a screw loose somewhere. While the ventral face of the centrum generally is covered with an undulating pattern of faint ridges, the lateral surfaces are more or less smooth. She blushed a faint pink, a rosy glow that seemed to suit her. The explosion left a faint neutron star at the center of the remnant, but unlike the rapidly rotating neutron star in the Crab Nebula, Cassiopeia's star is quiet and faint. A faint light shone from the small round window on the door. It was designed to produce extremely accurate astrometric measurements in small fields, and has been used to measure parallaxes and therefore distance for faint stars. Just then a faint rustle of leaves disturbed the pressing silence. Show More Sentences It hurtled through a void, an immense cathedral of black pitch, specked with faint pinpoints of light whose pale luminosity underscored the darkness that shrouded them. Now that a lunette's sinopia with faint sheep has come to light, the argument becomes stronger for the relief filling the chapel's remaining iconographical lacuna. A faint light, probably that of a table lamp, shone through his window. These moons and rings had existed for millennia, but they were beyond human perception until the invention of a device that could magnify the faint images. Morning One, December 22, 2008 The dorm was dark and quiet except for the intermittent buzzing of a faint snore or more. Somewhere in the darkness, the faint echo of a terrible drawn out scream was carried on the breeze from the mountains and the three adventurers froze in place. The light was joined in a gentle conspiracy with the air itself, which whispered in the leaves above our heads, tinged with a faint scent of balsam. Its finish is superbly long, with deep marrowy, minerally undertones, faint plum pit bitterness, and persistently bright, juicy, slightly tart berry fruit. Minutes after the sonobuoy was in the water, the faint sound of a submarine screw entered the headphones of a young petty officer aboard the helicopter. The first thing she noticed was the faint smell of sea breeze. Okay, so it's faint praise, but Driver has made the transition from actress to singer far more successfully than most thespians who have tried it. One of the most engaging things about the site is its air of faint eccentricity, and the fact that it is put together by a thoroughgoing enthusiast. Her voice is faint and thready, and it is easy to imagine her propped up against the pillows in her Thirsk home, struggling to find the strength to continue. So it was that the faint throb of a boat engine and then the definite sound of contact between craft and rock resounded from the cliffs, reaching those on shore. Bam was close to me again and there was a faint flicker of hope. The mingled scents worn by the beau monde of Morocco contrasted with the faint whiff of well-trodden boots from my dishevelled English companions. I felt a faint tickle in my brain that warned me of a sending. This will produce a surge of mostly faint meteors over Europe and Asia. Following my faint shadow across the tan carpet and up to my feet then leisurely climbing to my face until our eyes meet, the enemy noticeably tenses and her jaw sets. He's big now, but he has a faint purr, a tiny kitten peeping mew. Show More Sentences It sounded like a faint mew of a kitten, but I wasn't really sure. He looked at her strangely, a faint smile touching his lips. She whispered, a faint smile touching her lips, it was coming back. Only the red allows for variation, and von der Ahe pushes it to shades ranging from a faint rusty tint to a deeply saturated red violet to a ruddy brown. Compositions on white paper seem gently washed with faint shadows, while those on black paper are inhabited by cloudlike presences made of traceries of white filigree lines. I paddle about, listening to the faint plop plop of the burbling springs. A letter from an old flame fluttered to the welcome mat this week, tinged with the rosy glow of nostalgia and giving off a faint melancholy whiff of might-have-beens. Through the dark mist, I could make out the faint shape of a large cat. A faint shimmer of amethyst light showed subtle sorcery at work. I was just starting to wrestle out of my oversized shirt, shivering slightly in the cold bathroom, when a heard a faint knocking on the main door. He felt the familiar faint jarring of a strata overlay and immediately the Matriarch stood facing him in the sunlight that shone through the trelliswork above. As she lay trembling slightly for a long moment, not daring to breathe, she became aware of a faint humming, like the sound that a triangle makes after you strike it. The faint whistling of birdsong awoke Marcs as it crept into his cell. One blackbird wearing an orange beak sat on a branch and made a faint noise like a rubber duck with its whistle full of pudding, a tweet with the edges rubbed smooth. In this soft twilight, Wilton could see a faint shimmer around Milon. Twenty seconds later Wendy heard the faint sound of a car engine starting. Crucially, there were two faint marks in the text that could either be full stops or else accidental blots of ink, thereby casting doubt on the intended meaning of the text. My breathing was shallow and I felt faint as the tears blotched my face. What you are left with are faint traces of lyricist her fragile vocals, as if she too has been bludgeoned into submission by the swirl of his sustained sonic extremism. And at that point I start to feel faint and my stomach starts doing that weird flippy thing. Show More Sentences The faint buzzing, bell-like thumb pianos play out a simple pattern behind abstract scraping and dragging sounds. On 31 October 1793, most of the Girondin leaders were guillotined, which caused Wollstonecraft to faint when Imlay broke the news to her. If cortisone, or even faint traces of it, is detected in your sample, you won't be allowed to perform. The sun is high and warm, and the air is filled with the faint perfume of blue lupine and purple owl's clover pushing up among the poppies. With curious onlookers packed into the office as witnesses, faint voices were heard replying. Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest, bring forth no other fruits but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and phlegmatic conceits? She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph. Little half moons clustered underneath her cheekbones, like faint hoofmarks. The City, it seemed to her, knew it dimly, with a yearning faint as dawn's forelight, which grew stronger with each passing hour, inevitably. For should its faint pulsations cease Ere he had coated it with grease, His God would clutch it, and condemn The fiendling to eternal flame. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet. She could smell a faint aroma of machine oil and corflu emanating from the man cradling her worn form. The water pushed large blocks of tepid air about around his chair, giving the faint illusion of freshness and coolth. A very faint planetary nebula, NGC 7094, can be spotted less than 2 degrees further north-east. All is not lost, though, for one day he hears in the distance a faint cuckooing sound. In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled. She could faint as easy as anything. I'd love to be able to faint, wouldn't you, Marilla? Laterally compressed, subovate in cross-section, and only slightly curved posteriorly, with faint longitudinal striations on lateral faces. The vulturine guinea fowl we started out on is neither for the slow of foot, nor the faint of heart. There was a faint rose acronical glow high in the room, the beginning of twilight. Show More Sentences There's just a faint chance that the weather will improve by tomorrow. There's even a bit of sulfur-y blackstrap molasses nipping around the edges of the palate and a faint prune bass note. Most of the ocular area was still bare with just a faint hint of the white malar pattern of adults. A fine book all around, but not a book for the faint of heart. After one yelling fit, the faint cry of a long-tailed macaque could be heard in the distance, possibly from the zoo. Robert Innes in 1915 at the Union Observatory found a faint third star associated with the stars alpha and beta Centauri. Our pulmonary assessment revealed faint bilateral rhonchi and diminished left lower lung sounds. Lighting his path are the stars, a sliver of moon and the faint green glow of the aurora australis, the southern lights. Ty Gwyn Medium Sweet is made exclusively from Browns cider apples and is almost transparent in colour apart from a faint apple-green hue. Always reading her I feel a faint contempt and yet an equally faint jokiness prevails. This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity. Now that he is close to her, a faint smell of staleness, unwashedness, reaches him. A patient who has experienced a syncopial episode may faint again soon after recovery. Halleck nodded, heard the faint susurration and felt the air shift as a lockport swung open beside him. Most supernovae are in distant galaxies that are faint even to the most powerful telescopes. The noise of the ship was all around her. The faint subsonic rumble of the reactor and drive. There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks. Slim and tall, he glided, a chastened dignity in his long upturned countenance, and a faint halo of sainthead round his tall bald head. Now is a good time to try to find the faint constellations of Coma Berenices and Canes Venatici. And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks. Show More Sentences Former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher is believed to have suffered a mini stroke when she complained of feeling faint earlier this month. This allows snakes to be able to sense approaching animals by detecting faint vibrations in the ground. It was a warm dark night of faint clouds through which the moon shone palely as through a thin silk canopy. Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Even though no obvious staining was observed in our case, contact with the vapor was still found to perform very faint etching at a submicrometric scale. When the prowling aerialist senses the faint echoes bouncing off one of these prey, he turns toward the target, quickens his chirp rate, and homes in for the kill. Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life. A faint whiff of marijuana blends with the fumes of diesel trucks, the smell of boiling cabbage, overperked coffee, and the kitchen exhaust from a nearby Oriental restaurant. My eyes had adjusted to the faint starlight and I could make out pale glistenings and white glow of bones which had worked their way free of clinging flesh. Some of the tables were upset, and there was a faint tang, perceptible above the fugg of the place, which told him that it was here the shot had been fired. However, there is evidence for the presence of water on the early Earth, in the Hadean and Archean eons, leading to what is known as the faint young Sun paradox. It is part of a triple system consisting of a pair of Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red companion, Proxima Centauri. No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle. Photos of freshly collected specimens from Thailand indicates that specimens with broad bands on the body and faint or no cheek dark marks are the xanthic form. However, as the abolitionist movement's agitation increased and the area developed for plantations expanded, apologies for slavery became more faint in the South. At the end of the oblique cristid there is only a very faint swelling which might be called the mesolingual conid. The anterolingual conid is not well developed. Chelsea kept their faint Premier League title hopes alive and damaged Manchester United's own ambitions as they came from behind to beat the leaders at Stamford Bridge. For the chanterelles Heat oil in large saute pan over high heat until faint white smoke appears Add chanterelles, reduce heat to medium-high and season with salt and pepper. Remoisten and reblot two or three times until what you're blotting up is colorless or the faint color of Red or Blue juice, but definitely not the color of wine. Show More Sentences It has frontoparietal stripes on the top of its head, a faint golden midlateral line, and a distinctive black spot on the hind border of the gill cover. The image of Christ is more of faint image and more modern design. The spectrograph will be capable of obtaining simultaneous optical spectra of up to 300 faint galaxies or stars at wavelengths between 390 and 1000 nm. As with most hacker tools, however, iPodWizard is a bit of a tweaky program, which means it's not for the faint of heart or for those utterly devoid of technical skills. The faint glow coming from the wooded terrain just beyond a cluster of Tennessee cabins called Elkmont looks like common lightning bugs at first glance. A faint oystery light smudged the November sky outside the window. The individual cells were round to polygonal with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and round to oval nuclei with diffuse to marginated chromatin and faint chromocen ters. She felt so very light-headed and faint, quite breathless from all the dancing. Were it not for her kleptomania and tendency to faint, one would assume she was a very happy woman. These faint, radial lines were first observed by Voyager, 25 years ago, and have also been seen in pictures from Hubble. You may be feeling light-headed or faint, and often this is accompanied by a feeling of something being very wrong. He would break out in a sweat and become so light-headed he would practically faint. Profanity, vulgarity, bad language and all such other improprieties of speech were things that just might cause him to all but faint. My finger traced out his features as I suddenly became aware that any minute now, I would faint. I'm a bit of a turkey when it comes to needles, and I'm lying there all locked into place with the coils and headphones, feeling woozy and faint. When not indulging in childish grossout humor or overstuffing their tracks with studio gimmickry, The Faint still prove powerful songsmiths. Emergency rooms are full of the faint, the fainting, and the faint-hearted. Faint voices floated to him and he caught the general gist of the conversation. Her voice was raspy and after answering questions she paused, as if about to faint. Faint scars marking the original pierced backplates confirm that the simpler brass bails on the top drawer are replacements. Show More Sentences So in reality her quick thinking and rash acting had caused Jeff to faint. Faint remains of a Venetian fort lie crumbling on the hill above the old quarter. Faint traceries of blue light danced along the mirror-bright cutting edges. Faint and fine suturai lineations, incompletely reflecting tabulation, variably developed over surface. Faint Heart was a costly failure at Galway, going down by a length to Right Key, but was all at sea on the fast surface then. Faint brown septate hyphae and moniliform fungal elements were found in the granuloma. Faint moonlight was streaming in from the broken windows, and from the weakness of the light outside, it was probably only a few hours before the break of day. On the windows of the nearer buildings the sun cast glittering beams, but further away a faint, translucent mist hid the city. The fusion reaction pumping out heat and energy end the life span of a star, hence making it a white dwarf star as it is faint, dense and cold. I saw a faint, sweet glimmer of the ferocious protector he once was. Faint murmuring was heard and the smell of blood hung in the air. Clinically, early skin and mucosal lesions may be difficult to recognise as they appear as faint, red-brown to violet macules. Faint smoke spiraled off the battery connections as they heated up. A third ring system was added in March 1979 when Voyager-1 flew past Jupiter and imaged the outer edge of a faint, tenuous ring, 57,000 km above the planet's cloudtops. Examples from Classical Literature She was Pakistani or Bangladeshi, with a faint accent, and very pretty even with the dark circles under her eyes. He caught the faint odor of bath salts rising from under the rounded neckline of her blouse. But as Philothea bent over him, she perceived a faint pulsation of the heart. He had a faint hope that the announcement might affect the other as it had affected the bagman at Kilchrist. Once he was a famous basso profundo, but now his voice was high and thin, and seemed already fraught with faint aerial music. An agonizingly long time later the faint and disregarded sound of the plane swept back across the heavens. Kenny sickened at the faint odor of antiseptics and softly closed the door. The color of this pretty acaleph varies from a greenish hue to green, with a faint tinge of red, or to a reddish brown. The box goes up to the attic, and the parent blows a faint diminuendo, achingly prolonged, on a toy horn. Close by, a mat, as pretty as the bayadere who once lay upon it, still gave out a faint scent of sandal wood. Find more words! 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