dimness
Example Sentences
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Ms. Haynes brings back the poetry of time, reintroducing terms such as “gloaming” and “dimpse,” which mean the dimness of twilight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The colors are a reddish black, a Renaissance ultramarine blue and a blackish burgundy that Zumthor hoped would conjure a cave-like dimness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
Fifteen dancers sit in dimness, supervised by some kind of overseer.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Although the evolution and spectra of the event resembled a binary star merger, its dimness pointed to a star-planet merger instead.
From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2023
His round, white-circled eyes looked out at them mysteriously from the dimness of the inside of the box.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
