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Faintly
"Faintly" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The boy faintly resembled his father in appearance.
Her cheeks were faintly flushed.
It seems as if my daughter is faintly aware that I'm not her real mother.
Tom nodded faintly.
Tom smiled faintly.
His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
And ever, as the story drained / The wells of fancy dry, / And faintly strove that weary one / To put the subject by, / "The rest next time—" "It is next time!" / The happy voices cry.
The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west.
"Is French-Canadian an oxymoron?" asked Mary. "Far in the distance, there stands a lone drummer, and a rimshot is faintly heard," said Tom.
On summer weekends, they could always hear the sounds from the outdoor amphitheater thumping faintly.
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So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Faintlier, faintlier came the footfalls to his ear, until of all the faint sounds that came, by the abandoned air, to his ear, not one was a footfall, as far as he could judge.
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