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Example sentences for "faintly"

Lexicographically close words:
faintest; fainteth; fainthearted; fainting; faintings; faintness; faints; fair; faire; fairely
  1. Nor did her mouth ever so faintly resemble the "Cupid's bow" which is so dear to the fashion-plates of feminine loveliness.

  2. Then faintly and far away came the suggestion that even without the hours in hell there was Paradise still open.

  3. She faintly recognised Sandie again--the living Sandie whom she knew, not the dead Sandie whom she had seen when she first entered the room.

  4. Thighs faintly barred or plain posteriorly; discs on fingers about size of tympanum; distinct dark line from nostril to eye H.

  5. A slow wind was blowing up from the river toward him, and on it came faintly the long mellow blast of a horn.

  6. When he turned again he was smiling faintly and his voice was friendly and affectionate: "Jason, I know why you are here.

  7. Shall we not prove, what thou hast faintly taught, That all the powers of earth and air are one, That one deep law persists from mole to sun?

  8. Those near the place where the plucky half-back was borne off the field could see that his face was pale, but supremely happy, and he smiled faintly as he heard the cheers of thousands, and his own name coupled with that of his Alma Mater.

  9. Through the buzzing in their ears they can faintly hear the guns, the whistles, and the roar of the crowd.

  10. The paint upon the walls and floor glistened but faintly to the fire and the small flames of two candles that stood among the viands upon the table.

  11. When at length she succeeded in telling him faintly that if he refused this opportunity he must fall lower and lower and lose even the desire for good, she found that her words had no longer any power to influence.

  12. If you have had these experiences, you may begin to faintly imagine the reasons of these illumined souls for keeping away from the crowd--for dwelling away from the multitude.

  13. His breast was somewhat faintly spotted with brown, and below he was white.

  14. His wings and tail were dusky, little bars of white showing very faintly on his wings, while the outer edges of his tail were distinctly white.

  15. Then, late one afternoon, there came floating down to him from high up in the sky, faintly at first but growing louder, a sound unlike any Peter had heard all the long summer through.

  16. XXIV A curious look, half woeful, was seen on his face as he turned His eyes upon each of his children, like one who but faintly discerned His old self in an old mirror.

  17. Billy Gray, mending only slowly, had been sent to Corregidor, where the bracing breezes of the China Sea drove their tonic forces through his lungs and veins, and the faintly rising hue of coming health back into his hollow cheeks.

  18. His eyes were fastened on her faintly flushing face.

  19. The mournful howl of a wolf came faintly from the northern rim of the forest.

  20. The stream itself showed but faintly yellow under the darkness.

  21. It even seemed to him that at such moments Maria Consuelo had shown an infinitesimal resentment, whereas Spicca had faintly exhibited something more like impatience.

  22. It was faintly possible that she loved him already, though he was slow to believe that, his vanity lying in another direction.

  23. She smiled faintly as she met Orsino, but said nothing and sat down at a distance from the windows.

  24. That was not the youth of Giovanni, her husband, nor of men who even faintly resembled him in her estimation.

  25. Whether it be purple golden summer, or winter with sad tints of russet woods and faintly rosy snows, or spring attired in tenderest green of new-fledged trees and budding flowers, the air is always pure and light and finely tempered here.

  26. Siena is so far away, and Montalcino is so faintly outlined on its airy parapet, that these cities only deepen our sense of desolation.

  27. The house was now still and deserted, although the sounds of riotous excess were faintly audible in the distance.

  28. But, peeping out at length and throwing one more glance at the picture, which was faintly illumined by her night-lamp, she heard still another repetition of the mysterious laughter, coming apparently from a great distance.

  29. A corner of the harbor also is visible, far up, undefined, like a lake lost in clouds the water, faintly illumined by a ray of moonlight, making it shine like a sheet of silver.

  30. The first hesitating notes are murmured faintly and mingle with the music of the insects humming outside, in the quiet air of the warm and golden twilight.

  31. Following an instinct at first only faintly manifest but which soon gathered strength, disintegrated Germany became one.

  32. There was a brotherhood between man and not only the zoöphyte, but still further down, even with the ultimate cell in which organisation can first be traced, only faintly distinguishable from the azoic rock on which it hangs.

  33. Her adorable face flushed faintly as her gaze sought her mother's.

  34. Not fatally," Parker replied with a faintly knowing smile.

  35. He pointed to the constellation of the Great Bear which glittered faintly in the sky.

  36. Whose voice, far, far away, itself comes as the faintly remembered music of long bygone dreams preceding birth .

  37. As she gazed upon the features, faintly suggestive of its father's, she felt that she could never part from this familiar and intimate link with the spontaneous and powerful passion of her girlhood.

  38. The Irish stew had only a faintly burnt flavour, and looked appetising enough in its dish; but the sight of it had a curious effect on Sister Joanna.

  39. Her head dropped into its former position on my bosom, and she murmured a few words, but too faintly for me to hear them.

  40. The order of the letters was now right, but the letters themselves were sometimes too faintly impressed, sometimes too much blurred together to be legible.

  41. A few hundred yards beyond the point where we had hit upon this new trail which was only faintly visible, the horses turned eastward, on to a field.

  42. He stood gazing down at the sleeping face faintly seen by the candle-light; and then turned away to go out through the glass door, and pace the verandah again.

  43. There was the knowledge, though faintly grasped, that something was terribly wrong.

  44. It was not so much that Bull Hunter sat with a faintly dreamy smile, staring into the future and forgetting his food, but it was the fact that Mary Hood was continually smiling across the table into that big, calm face.

  45. The last thing he remembered was the form of the great stallion, standing watchfully in the exact middle of the corral, the starlight glimmering very faintly in his big eyes.

  46. She started, with a faintly tremulous movement which thrilled him with triumphant gladness.

  47. A terrible doubt--a doubt which Biron had once or twice already seen faintly in the distance--approached nearer and looked him in the face.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faintly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barely; delicately; gently; hardly; imperfectly; lightly; little; low; minimally; minutely; pianissimo; piano; scarcely; slightly; softly; weakling; weakly