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