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Example sentences for "dimmer"

Lexicographically close words:
dimitte; dimity; dimly; dimme; dimmed; dimmest; dimming; dimmycratic; dimness; dimora
  1. They thank her, repay her with a piece of silver, and hurry away in the direction of the light, which seems to burn dimmer and dimmer as they approach.

  2. All the day should be dimmer Because we are left alone.

  3. Her vision was dimmer and her spirit at times withdrawn, remote.

  4. The doctor says my sight'll just kind of slip away, and when I look my last look, when it gets dimmer and dimmer to me, I want the last thing I see to be them mountains where William and me worked and was so happy!

  5. Crowds of tender recollections Fill my eyes with unshed tears; Dimmer grows the glowing future-- Dimmer till it disappears.

  6. She had no one to tell her, and the few memories grew dimmer and dimmer each year.

  7. Dimmer grow the voices; dimmer the ship, the wide waves Pile up behind it.

  8. His answer as he lay back with eyes closed again was another of his smiles, only dimmer now with a faint bitter-sweetness.

  9. It was like the door into the hall of mysteries opening, but only to make disclosures dimmer and more mystifying still.

  10. As he goes farther and farther from us he becomes dimmer and dimmer and can be followed only with a telescope until, even with this aid to vision, he is lost in the rays of the sun at superior conjunction.

  11. Just outside of Sandy Hook our pilot with a satchel of letters descended the rope ladder to the waiting tug, and soon afterwards the low-lying shores became dimmer and dimmer until they disappeared from view.

  12. What tho' in worlds which own a single sun The sands of Time grow dimmer as they run, * Seltsamen Tochter Jovis Seinem Schosskinde Der Phantasie.

  13. But arts are only the mirror of life, and, as Catholicism died away, so its sounds grew fainter and its lights dimmer in art.

  14. Time passed; the memory of those ghastly days In Colchis dimmer grew and mistier.

  15. Then all at once darkness fell upon me, and anon from out of it, as to one who grows accustomed by degrees to a dimmer light, my former surroundings of deck and mast and cordage slowly resolved themselves.

  16. The room was apparently vacant--no; as their eyes became accustomed to the dimmer light something was visible in the farthest angle of the wall.

  17. Dimmer now, but even more majestic in the twilight, the great, immovable cliffs towered up to the sky.

  18. The heather bushes were stunted, their roots blackened as though with fire, and even the yellow of the gorse shone with a dimmer lustre.

  19. Dimmer and dimmer grow the lights, while Richards and I listen intently at the window in the great iron door which opens onto the gallery of the north wing.

  20. Far off from those hills that shine with day, And fields that bloom in the heavenly gales The Land of Dreams goes stretching away To dimmer mountains and darker vales.

  21. All dim in haze the mountains lay, With dimmer vales between; And rivers glimmered on their way By forests faintly seen; While ever rose a murmuring sound From brooks below and bees around.

  22. As thus they spoke, with wavering sweep Floated the graceful forms away; Dimmer and dimmer, through the deep, I saw the white arms gleam and play.

  23. She glanced at the dull, coppery sun growing dimmer and dimmer behind the thickening snow fog, and the pink light flickering on the horizon, at the dim figures of the men and the grey wastes on every side.

  24. At first they did not notice the gathering storm, but as the sun grew dimmer and dimmer they looked up, as did many of the cowboys, and saw the ominous-looking cloud.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dimmer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arc; flood; floodlight; gelatin; lights; limelight; medium; spot; spotlight