Faint

//feɪnt//

"Faint" in a Sentence (26 examples)

The sound of shouting grew faint.

I suddenly stood up and felt faint and light-headed.

I think I'm going to faint.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

We waited with faint expectation.

Now, all heads turn toward the dean, who sits surrounded by a faint halo of light.

I have a faint recollection of the event.

I heard a faint sound nearby.

Eriko worked so long and so hard, without stopping to eat, that I feared she would faint.

She gave a faint smile.

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I felt faint after my fifth gin and tonic.

He almost fell faint due to the hot climate.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

There was a faint red light in the distance.

faint efforts

faint resistance

They damned the latest book with faint praise.

a faint chance

do you have the faintest understanding of what they mean?

Happening to pass a fruiterer’s on their way; the door of which was open, though the shop was by this time shut; one of them remarked how faint the peaches smelled.

She suffered another faint.

A fainting fit.

If I send them away fasting […] they will faint by the way.

But upon hearing the Honour which he intended her , she fainted away , and fell down as Dead at his Feet

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

November 12, 1711, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye.

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