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Sentence Examples They descend on my memory somewhat here though I do dimly remember us drivelling on about many other subjects. William peeped through the curtained window into the dimly lit smoked filled room. In the light of the dimly shining half-moon, her eyes looked worried and afraid. In all schools, hallways were dark and most classrooms were dimly lit in an effort to save energy and money. A blurred, agonizing glimpse into the dimly lighted observation car heaped to the ceiling with wreaths and flowers was all that Honey Creek got. One night, four men tumbled into the stall, dimly lit by a flickering oil lamp. Often these gatherings are held in dimly lit rooms with portable bars and chafing dishes of chicken fingers, meatballs, cheese cubes, and dip. I can dimly remember lying in bed, awaiting an ambulance, and seeing yellow sulphur candles burning on the mantelpiece. They emerged from the hatchway into a dimly lit place that hummed with the sound of strange machinery in operation. This property had a particularly Yin quality about it and was quite dimly lit even when the lighting was on. Within the narrow passages candles were placed along the walls, dimly lighting up the blood red stone. The creature then proceeds to rear its ugly head in a few dimly lighted and cloddishly edited murder scenes. Tessa Skara, dressed in pink, was the first to take to the dimly lit stage. At 0445 the flight deck was dimly lit, the Australian White Ensign illuminated as sailors and soldiers fell in for the dawn service. Nate followed the Petrov sisters though a dimly lit pathway to the porch and front door. Upon entering the sanctuary, they processed down the aisle towards the altar, which was dimly lit with candles. She felt a hard crunch beneath her foot and wondered dimly if maybe she'd stepped on a pencil. His eyes adjusted to the dimly lit room, illuminated by a single, heavily curtained window. There were, however, sightings of strange apparitions dimly gleaming gauntly in the night sky over the Lich Tower. It was solid oak, hard and formidable, shining gloss in the dimly lit kitchen. Show More Sentences A cozy blanket drapes your lap, electric-blue shadows flicker in the dimly lit room. The lamp on Albert's desk glowed golden orange, dimly illuminating the dusty, disorderly office. Inside a single arc-light burned dimly, high up near the roof of the enormous hall, whose windows vanished in the gloom. The restaurant, with its dark wood paneling, dimly glowing brass light fixtures and green velour booths, reeks of old-time Hollywood noir. The light shone dimly off the white wall directly across the sparse, small room. The main chain of the Great Atlas was now in view, dimly apparent at a distance of some sixty miles. Their musculature, dimly delineated, nonetheless lacks three-dimensionality. Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light. The Schuylkill River appears in the foreground, with a domed building dimly silhouetted on the horizon of the distant plateau. Before us was the devout audience, dimly shown by the light which streamed through the windows. In the end, I felt a little cheated, because I was dimly aware of the wasted potential. He also developed new ways of putting on paint to produce the effect of features dimly seen through steam and driving rain. Small ghostly figures in protective gear are dimly discernible as they approach the tent. The bartender is dimly perceptible in the black light by the cash register. He favoured placid stretches of water dimly fringed with translucent foliage. He's that kind of serviceable but anonymous character actor whose face you dimly recognize but whose name escapes your memory. The postman brought three letters, among them one whose superscription was in a hand which seemed dimly familiar to me. The band members agree that they remember the details surrounding these songs only very dimly. But that time will be long ahead, when building materials have properties that we can only dimly imagine. It all adds up into sounding very important, but ultimately only dimly memorable. Show More Sentences Government and state in the first half of the nineteenth century were dimly seen as agencies for the exaction of taxes. Marriage was expected to last and divorce, though hardly unknown, was regarded dimly. It's easy, even a mild pleasure, to look dimly upon the essay's patrician airs and haughty notions. Investors would look very dimly on an acquisition as the synergies are not that significant. She walks into the dimly lit room, staring at the bottles of potions and elixirs. Very dimly he could hear men roaring at each other, the cacophony of their voices jarring discordantly against each other. Although on the main road the sun was shining brightly, under the trees the dooryards of the small houses were only dimly lit. Cal chooses to climb another two flights of stairs to relieve himself in a dimly lit water closet at the farthest corner of the building. A few aid agencies, charter airlines and the national carrier rattled around the dimly lit concourse. We had gone a good distance on a dimly lit road when a strong, foul and suffocating odour swarmed into and around our car. Irish dock laborers rubbed shoulders with the aldermen they helped elect in these dimly lit and male-dominated spaces. Her footsteps echoed loudly as she shuffled across the foyer, dimly lit by the beams of moonlight lancing across the shiny floor. Exorcism session is held in a dimly lit hall at the exorcist's house, and begins with a session of a zikr of the Qadri order. The camera slowly zooms out to show the dimly lit room and finally the back of the Don's head, and his hands. He dragged himself up the walk, dimly noticing that the front window was covered with condensation. I won't say there was a sudden flash of insight but dimly I was becoming aware that there are lots of things to see if you take the time to look. Shadows and dimly lighted sequences possess great detail and clarity, with no signs of edge enhancement or digital compression artifacts present. The room was dark, with only the table lamp on dimly beside where she was sitting. The interior is a delight, a beamed, strawed, trestle-tabled, dimly lit farmhouse attended to by waiters in sashed smocks. I had decided to take no candle and, instead, rely on memory and the dimly lit wall sconces to make my way to the front door. Show More Sentences The two of them found themselves in a cavernous hall, dimly lit by wall sconces that emitted a flickering orange glow. Coloured cut outs of red hearts, and heart-shaped balloons, decorated the walls and roof in the dimly lit ballroom. The school are really piling the pressure on, and your child is giving a monologue, as a solitary spotlit figure against a dimly lit set. The room was dimly lit, with only a reading lamp casting its melancholy glow over the elegantly decorated room. A small table sat in the middle of a dimly lit room, candles and torches providing barely enough illumination for the six seated men to see. There was one staircase in the centre, dimly illuminated by torchlight, and it led to somewhere below. The effect is quite lovely, our passenger tossing and turning in sleep and dimly overhearing the torch song from his neighbour's headphones. I dimly noticed that Jay refused both breakfast and dinner through silent shakes of his head while I ate them mechanically, never tasting them. His laptop glows in front of him, dimly lighting a video camera perched atop its tripod. The room lights have been shut off so that the room is relatively dimly lit. The light gradually faded out of the cavern, leaving only shards of broken ice twinkling dimly in the darkness. A few moments after he spoke, an elderly woman, glassy eyed from a trance, reeled uncontrolledly through the dimly lit room. The grotto occupies the basements of two former bodegas on a dimly lit stretch of Ludlow Street, just above Delancey Street. At the far end, this dimly lit corridor compresses itself so that your emergence into a luminous skylit dining room is all the more striking. The corridors were very dimly lit, and there was an ancient smell of musty decay. I soon found an unconscious Charlie napping quite peacefully near a dimly lit grove. I was sitting on the desk staring out the window at the lights of Mainport and humming disjointed snatches of dimly remembered songs. The film noir narrative usually plays out not in the brightly lit kitchen of a comfortable home but at night in dimly lit back streets. This nigrescent little corridor opens onto a dimly lit dining room that has seven booths that seat four and two tables that seat two. But the sky was dark, the tiny specks in the sky sparkling dimly in the pitch blackness. Show More Sentences Senator, are you even dimly aware that terrorism is NOT a victimless crime? A lattice of thin white strands flashed dimly on the oak, forming a binding, blinking silvery spiderweb. The place was quite deserted, lighted by a few lanterns hung high up, in which the gas burned dimly. The Labour insider said the party would view any wrongdoing very dimly. All were sitting barefoot on mattresses around the walls of their fetid, dimly lit room. Four miles out and I began dimly to understand that I had shot my bolt. In the distance, thunder rumbled, and sheet lightning dimly lit the sky. Those of us who gathered in Grierson's office that day were scarcely aware of what had hit us, comprehending only dimly the magnitude of the crisis. Then, in the light of the dimly burning fire in the heart he went to her. It has transformed the cellar from dimly lit and little used storerooms into a welcoming and comfortable haven in which to enjoy a drink and a chat with friends. If you think dimly of people, they will have a dim view of themselves. The door opened and a bright light shone into the dimly lit room. It was in the tallest tower of the castle, and it was dimly lit. I think very dimly of restaurants that charge for a glass of tap water. The lights faded up dimly, casting an amber glow on his nearly nude body. One of his darkly coloured earlier works, it features a peasant family's mealtime, dimly lit by a tallow lamp, with a huge plate of steaming spuds as the centrepiece. But perhaps the more canny readers can indeed read backwards from these general remarks and dimly perceive the vestigial outline of the example which occasioned them. When we finally got back we found our fire still burning dimly. The sensory qualities of such an object are therefore no more than passing accidents, through which its essence is dimly and confusedly perceived. The desert beyond is dimly visible in the light of the gibbous moon. Show More Sentences We eventually migrated to a narrow, cobbled alleyway, an archaic space crammed with smartly dressed young people, the overflow from several dimly lit bars. The shadow moved forward into view, the moon's rays shining dimly upon it. They were travelling along the path through the forest, with some soldiers carrying a litter with a strange object on it, that glowed dimly red in the darkness. Resembling a natural history museum, the dimly lit central gallery was lined with 13 steel-and-glass vitrines, each containing a weathered stone tablet. The Khmer believed that the moon protects humans by at least dimly lighting up the night world by riding a silver chariot each night across the sky. The ticking of a clock filtered through the silence, a pendulum swinging lightly on the side of the dimly lit room which was basked in a dull, blue light. On the inside is the usual mix of off-white, flecked linoleum tiles and segmented ceiling panels, dull and dimly lit. There are curtained cubicles for seeing the doctor, dimly lit halls, a smell of stopped-up toilets. The setting was the Satyricon, a small, dimly lit nightclub in Portland, Oregon. I dimly recalled seeing Rod Dreher blog about this happening in malls near his home. Now they were in a small corridor, dimly lit by burning lamps. Yet it wasn't really a face at all, he dimly realized, but rather an incredibly elaborate helmet and faceplate crafted from dusty white bones and sharp metal studs. However dimly you may view his ideological goals, it's likely that his management experience at the Defense Department has prepared him well to oversee that agency. That portion of the Moon's nightside is dimly lit by the light of the nearly-full Earth in the Moon's sky. 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. One could see part of the dimly lit court where under an enclosed poplar two soldiers on a stone bench were playing lansquenet. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. Daylight was breakly dimly through wild-looking clouds upon a world of tumultuous waters. Only the earliest seems to be off, though the changing tides of Byzantine reconquest and Ostrogoth supremacy in Italy are dimly perceived. The background shows, dimly, a vaulted room or alcove, but van Mieris's hyperrealism trumps that trompe-l'oel depth. Show More Sentences By this time, the Syntaxis was lost in Western Europe, or only dimly remembered. The rudiments of particulate inheritance were dimly understood already by the breeders of cattle and apples, but nobody was being systematic. I was being carried along a dimly lighted, tunnel-like place, slung, sackwise, across the shoulder of a Burman. The fogged window was only semitransparent and I could only dimly make out the figures. The English cries of the soldiers were answered in English by the Boers, and slouch hat or helmet dimly seen in the mirk was the only badge of friend or foe. OpleFilipino worker Reynaldo Esmero Reposar, 71, walked the length of a dimly lighted street in Marikina City, trying to identify which house was his. Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals, was not altogether a common one. After two weeks, they exposed half of the mice in each group to a searingly bright light for four hours, while the others stayed in dimly lit cages. Examples from Classical Literature To the far northwards, could be43 dimly observed the outlines of the Mogollon range of mountains. They saw the face dimly in the half-light, with unexpressive dark patches under the penthouse brows. Then ulus gripped my shoulder and I wiped the tears away, and saw dimly a dark shape coming out of the trees. At dark the old man lit two lamps, which served dimly to gloze the shadows, and thrust logs of wood into the cast-iron stove. He seemed to be in a sort of waking dream and only dimly conscious of happenings about him. They know themselves re-born in soul, and are dimly aware that the world is travailing toward new birth with them. This time the little craft had worked around abeam of the coaler, the latter's lights showing dimly in the thick fog. Shall we, then, have the philosopher-king, as Europe dimly seems to half expect? But on the far rim of that section of badlands shone the green of a Warlockian sea rippling on to the only dimly seen horizon. Vaguely, dimly, he saw that Miss Foster's tight-fitting bodice was the matter. He supposed he had apprehended dimly the risk of this incompletion in Paris during that first Long Vacation. Perhaps it is only men like this man, whose souls are stone-blind, that cannot see dimly the hidden shipwreck at hand. But the thought which had dimly haunted him that day blossomed on this evening. Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of juniper berries in his dimly lighted den below. But too often, indeed, is the inane world of aristocratic dilettantism felt hovering dimly near, as we read these pages. Who knows that he was not dimly aware of his own inferiority, and thus feared to venture? There was a strange and intangibly sinister quality in the moonlight that streamed dimly into the winding passage. A room gloomy with black walnut and fragrant with camphor was dimly visible. Behind them we could dimly descry a white tablecloth, a tea cozy and covered dishes. Did it dimly occur to him that the principle of this reserve was self-control and not self-effacement? Show More Sentences We knew not then how time passed, and could but dimly guess how things were going beyond the brambled copse in which we fought. The hull control rooms were dimly with earthlight straggling through the windows. One or two candlenut torches dimly illumined the figures of the squatting women who remained. The old place was dimly lighted, but the brothers occupied the chancel only. He admitted us and took us into the family room, where there was a lamp dimly burning on a center-table. There were two figures dimly visible in the obscurity of the vaulted entrance to the water gate. She appealed to Miss Taylor's ruddier and daintier vision but dimly and distantly as some memory of the past. Feeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths. The land of New Britain was dimly visible in the distance, and a dewy freshness filled the air. I wondered dimly when somebody would come and tell me how Philly was. He was dimly conscious he did not want Mr. Aston to come and see them. The dimly lit backstairs of the office where I toiled writing showbiz tittle-tattle were known as Gropers Alley. The stop at Queenstown, the tedious passage up the Mersey, were things that he noted dimly through his growing impatience. He remembered wandering through dimly lit streets, past gaunt, black-shadowed archways and evil-looking houses. The colonel had passed the point of explosion, and he dimly realized that eccentric aristocrats are allowed their fling. He was dimly conscious of a dark object hurtling through the air. The place was in semidarkness, objects being but dimly discernible. He glows, but dimly, like an ember, with a red and smouldering heat. At last, with intense relief, I saw dimly coming up, a foot to the right of me, a slender loophole in the wall. She was dimly aware of the scathing intention lurking in these soft low tones, in these words which appealed to her poignantly. Show More Sentences One could see the grand Alpine masses dimly outlined against the black firmament, and one or two faint stars blinking through rifts in the night. The rider could now see dimly a snow-clad height here and there. Does Skinflint ever think his candle is snuffy or burns dimly? The elephant, Imogene, was bulked dimly in the first gray of a soppy dawn. Vincent was dimly to be seen, forming the south-western point of the Spanish peninsula. The stoutish Commissioner glanced after him, dimly surprised. Down below it stretched, dimly geometrical in the darkness, picked out at regular intervals by glow-worm spangles of light. The silver band on his little round cap shone dimly in the light of the street lamp. As he peered in at the tepee door Wetherell perceived Pogosa dimly. In another moment he had opened a door, and, drawing aside a heavy curtain, obsequiously bowed Tarzan into a dimly lighted apartment. He could see him dimly by the window, which he had unscrewed and opened, peering down. It was no simple girl made with a little of our earth, and dimly lighted within by the vacillating ray of a woman's soul. The passageway was dimly lighted by occasional radium bulbs, the universal lighting medium of Barsoom. The walls about the ledge were pierced with a number of entrances to dimly lighted passageways. A man riding in hot haste was now dimly descried at the top of a distant hill. Already she could see dimly through the fog of smoke the murky headlight of the oncoming engine. The cellar is dimly lit, with large cozy wooden chairs, as well as high tables, making it appropriate for a dinner date or a fun night out. He associated her now with all those plans concerning the future which he had been dimly formulating since the climax of his successes had come. At intervals, apparently at each street intersection, an oil flare sputtered dimly from brackets set in the walls a trifle higher than a man's head. See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, like eyes that have been hurt in drunken frays. Show More Sentences Already dim figures of the workers moved in the biting dawn and the masted forms of ships were coming out dimly, as far as the eye could reach down the old harbour. This was not a cut and dried philosophy with him, but a glimmer that, though always suggesting itself but dimly, never failed when put to the test. Amid the blur of green, and dimly, she saw familiar faces and heard voices as if they came from far across the fields, and Edmond was holding her. Pierre too drew near the church where the thing was that evoked these exclamations, and dimly made out something leaning against the palings surrounding the church. Mademoiselle Violet stood to him for the whole wonderful world of romance, into which he had peered dimly from behind the counter of an Islington emporium. The coming of La Petite, bringing with her as she did the pungent atmosphere of an outside and dimly known world, was a shock to these two, living their dream-life. All beneath the fantastic limbs and ragged tree tops, which were, here and there, dimly painted against the starry zenith, lay alike in shadowed obscurity. We struck a polished chute, the opening above us closed as magically as it had opened, and we shot down, unharmed, into a dimly lighted apartment far below the arena. He saw the walls of the church dimly glaring under the trees beyond. It was a misty afternoon, but the February sun shone dimly, and we could just distinguish the two fir-trees in the yard, and the sparely-scattered gravestones. From tiers of staircase windows clogged lamps like the eyes of Equity, bleared Argus with a fathomless pocket for every eye and an eye upon it, dimly blink at the stars. Ashamed of his apprehensions, the young man turned toward the water, and strove to divert his attention to the mimic stars that dimly glimmered on its moving surface. My brother saw dimly through the dust that two men lifted out something on a white stretcher and put it gently on the grass beneath the privet hedge. A few apathetic faces of judges alone could be dimly discerned. Around it was a patch of silent common, smouldering in places, and with a few dark, dimly seen objects lying in contorted attitudes here and there. Near the horizon the sun was smouldering dimly, almost obscured by formless mists and vapors, which gave an impression of mass and density without outline or tangibility. She remembered, dimly, the blight of hard times in the past, and the plaints of fathers and mothers in those days returned to her with a new significance. The early light of morning was dimly filtering into the cave. Rochester's displeasure by disobeying his orders, when the light once more gleamed dimly on the gallery wall, and I heard his unshod feet tread the matting. Turning to the place from which the sound came I dimly saw a shadowy form which fled at my movement, squeezing itself through a cranny in the wall. Show More Sentences The brasses of the wheel glittered too, with the dimly lit figure of the man detached, as if phosphorescent, against the black and spangled background of the horizon. Find more words! 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