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    dimness example sentences

    dimness


    1. She'd had one cup a little while ago and there was still a touch from it, with enough concentration she could keep the dimness at bay and actually enjoy the wonderful scene


    2. Soon the walls of the little room were in place and Harry looked around in the dimness and asked the obvious question: “Daddy, how are we getting out of here?” George had waited for his son to ask before simply proceeding to the next step


    3. They kept the fire in the hearth and the cook stove always burning for warmth and comfort against the cold and dimness of the days


    4. A light went on in Harry's floundering dimness


    5. In the dimness the sea was wine dark, and the silhouette of Elisif’s fair city upon the hill was a steadfast shadow in the fog


    6. Her own face began to recede as the murky star field of the Waghtnin gradually replaced the dimness around the spotlight that expanded to include her fully robed form, flanked on either side by two very large, very fearsome looking temple guardians whose tails flicked back and forth hungrily


    7. Rosemary studied his profile in the dimness


    8. He could see Frank's face in the dimness in front of him now, a look of panic and terror stretched across it as it receded from him


    9. as he twisted through space, through the dimness, through the tunnel of walls, through time, falling


    10. The walls too were lost in the dimness of distance

    11. I was beaten back into the relative dimness of the house, slamming the door behind me and leaning against it


    12. 1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the


    13. approaching soldiers through the dimness, and knew that they


    14. Even in the dimness of the dawn, the visors of the


    15. her eyes adjusted to the dimness of the spot, she could make out


    16. dimness of the room, illuminating the dark corner in which he


    17. magnificent entrance hall for traces of movement in the dimness


    18. They peered through the dimness for awhile, Pierce becoming reconciled to his commander as they shared the misery


    19. It made distant objects indistinct and that made him uneasy, rousing thoughts of serpents gliding unseen through the dimness


    20. The hooded head was bent, the high shoulders faintly etched against the uncertain dimness

    21. It swung open easily, and he glared into a long corridor that curved away into dimness under the weird light of censers similar to those in the shrine


    22. He glared into the dimness of the vast place, seeking other priests or votaries, but saw only the group about the altar


    23. The first thing that hit us was the dimness of the place


    24. “I’m sorry I’m early,” she said, standing in the center of the small office and letting her eyes adjust to the dimness


    25. A thin ribbon of smoke twisted up from the bowl in the candlelight, dissipating in the dimness above


    26. Despite the dimness, designer sunglasses shaded his eyes from her view


    27. Clayton grinned, his straight, even teeth showing white in the dimness


    28. He gazed at Ellie in the dimness and his heart clenched


    29. As her eyes adjusted to the dimness, she recognized other shapes


    30. In the dimness, she hadn’t been able to tell what color it was, but she suddenly recalled the pink paint chips that had been found in Angelina’s hair

    31. She couldn’t be bothered hunting around in the dimness of the car for her bag


    32. In the dimness, her eyes widened and her body stilled


    33. ” Clayton indicated with his chin, hoping Luke could see him in the dimness


    34. I closed my eyes to the cool dimness and was out like a lady with the vapors


    35. She closed her eyes to the cool dimness and was out like a lady with the vapors


    36. As his eyes got used to the dimness, he tied Bess to the trough and loosened her saddle-belt


    37. He stood there, fists pumping at his sides, and watched me with an expression I couldn't make out in the dimness


    38. A figure was standing in the dimness, the neon light


    39. Searching through the dimness, lamps on the High-house walls were not


    40. Eyes adjusting through the dimness, his mind

    41. Throat raspy, Hanor sat up, searching about for a water skin through the dimness


    42. “Hanor,” he bellowed into the dimness


    43. I made my way through the dimness to the brightness of the skylight alcove


    44. For even if it be true that occasionally the mists of tune disperse and permit a momentary glance over the fiery eternity, the very circumstance of the endlessness of the vision has a tendency to draw the attention away from that near and immediate prospect of judgment, which follows on death, to the inconceivably remote futurity, whose distance, through the dimness of the perspective, invests it with a haze of unreality, and prevents it from exercising a definite influence on the conduct of life


    45. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and


    46. Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness, To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still


    47. The dimness of great distances and the obscurity of lives protected them from the nation's admiring gaze


    48. In these lengthened vigils, his brain often reeled, and visions seemed to flit before him; perhaps seen doubtfully, and by a faint light of their own, in the remote dimness of the chamber, or more vividly, and close beside him, within the looking-glass


    49. In front was a flat space of maybe a mile, all pitted with bog-holes and rough with tussocks, and then beyond it the road fell steeply down another glen to a plain whose blue dimness melted into the distance


    50. But when the tall Antonia, advancing with her light step in the dimness of the big bare Sala of the Avellanos house, offered him her hand (in her emancipated way), and murmured, "I am glad to see you here, Don Martin," he felt how impossible it would be to tell these two people that he had intended to go away by the next month's packet




























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    Synonyms for "dimness"

    dimness faintness subduedness duskiness darkness gloom dark dusk night nightfall twilight

    "dimness" definitions

    the state of being poorly illuminated


    the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity


    the quality of being dim or lacking contrast