faint
Example Sentences
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Tom plays a few pickup basketball games during his trip but always feels at risk of fainting.
It lies within the faint but imaginative constellation Monoceros, which represents a unicorn in star maps.
From Science Daily
A 12-year-old boy has been praised for his heroic actions after steering his mother's car to safety when she fainted behind the wheel on a major road.
From BBC
For this project, the researchers aimed to build a platform that could measure Raman signals far fainter than those detected by existing Raman systems.
From Science Daily
Assuming her son had perished in Italy, Eisenbeisser’s mother arranged a wake — only to have her son stroll into the ceremony very much alive, causing the woman to faint.
From Los Angeles Times
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