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How to use faintly in a sentence

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The distal end is dorsoventrally flattened with a mildly convex and faintly bilobed articulation surface.
The inside of the bag containing the mixed candies smelled faintly of machine parts and some weird oily sour smell.
I left the residence to walk down to the office, and saw that the lake was speckled with faintly glowing dots.
Within the dermis were multiple aggregates of faintly basophilic spherules.
Levin was splinting a Guardsman's broken arm when Hawkins came into the infirmary, his faintly silvering hair still wet from his bath.
The fruit is ripe when it is faintly but perceptibly squashy, especially at the stem end.
Only as the strike nears defeat does his obstinacy acquire a more human, faintly heroic quality.
The outline of my pictures and other hanging pieces is faintly discernible on paint soon to be obliterated by a new shade.
The house pork chop is tender without being fatty, and grilled to a charred, faintly smoky sweetness.
The pro teams are ghost sides, their outline only faintly discernible, manufactured solely to advance the national squad.
Their melodramatic arrangements, cascading strings and faintly histrionic vocal performances reflected the films' camp excesses.
Around her, birds chattered happily to each other, and the early morning sounds of traffic could be faintly heard in the distance.
Organic seared salmon with a sesame crust and a marginally oversweet, faintly citric sauce could have done with some seasoning.
He could faintly feel their broken thoughts and a chill of terror came down his spine.
Pineapples come to us all year but their juice, honeyed yet faintly tart, is more welcome under a grey January sky.
A tartar of salmon and scallops was bound with a finely judged, faintly citric emulsion which countered the extreme richness of the meat.
Michael frowned faintly in confusion, not understanding the sudden change in her mood.
Upon saying this, my figure that could vividly be seen in her black pupil began crumbling faintly.
In his mouth is firmly clamped a white, messy bundle, faintly streaked with red.
I believe there were also a number of decorations on the strip which faintly resembled flowers and small animals.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But it is now time to state, or rather faintly to adumbrate, the grand assumption of this singular work.
As she leaned over him, he smiled faintly, and imprinted a kiss upon her lips.
And at their foot the semicircle of a beach gleamed faintly, like an illusion.
His mother's face, still faintly shiny with hormone cream, turned toward him.
The quaestor looked at them with a faintly regretful air and pushed the weapon back in its holster.
From this spot could be faintly discerned the castellated turrets of my own house, the Villa Romani.
Once or twice she delighted him by faintly smiling a response to his speeches.
The brat stopped to breathe for a moment and a faintly human expression came over the stupendously smug little face.
Then I feel, at first only faintly, something like an inrush of electric fluid.
When it began to chirp faintly, he listened as if it were a beautiful sound.
She smiled at him faintly, nodding her head as though to keep pace with her thoughts.
Also, a ferret's muzzle, and a twist of tarry string, still faintly aromatic.
The printed goods are oxidised, then passed through warm or faintly alkaline water, whereby the blue colour is developed.
At these young Sybaris smiles faintly, for his thoughts are away with his ladylove, the too fascinating Lydia.
Her features were like marble beneath the silken dusk of her hair which was faintly outlined against the cloudier darkness.
Thorpe grinned faintly at the hint of pleasantry, but he did not relinquish his point.
She smiled faintly, vaguely, tolerantly, as if she enjoyed his pleasure in teasing her.
Rushing down from the depths of the heavens, these bodies commonly appear as faintly shining, cloudlike masses.
I could discern clearly, though faintly, a few of the imprints undeniably made by a sole of a tennis shoe.
The lights of small restaurants glimmered faintly on the bone-dry pavement.
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