faint

"These measurements are extremely difficult because carbon is a small and lightweight atom. It scatters very few X-rays, so the signal we needed to measure was quite faint."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

As the Saguaro was moved to greater simulated distances, the surrounding galaxy became too faint to see.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

All-rounder Cameron Green showed fight with a valiant 104 but after being bowled by Hasan Mahmud, Australia's faint hopes of saving the Test all but disappeared.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

She shrugs off Maddie getting faint at dance class because she threw up her lunch.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Somewhere she thought she heard the faint sound of...Boaz?

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Yasser regularly faints when she tries to stand.

From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026

When Louise, angling for attention, participates in her church’s Inner Beauty pageant, her talent is holding her breath until she faints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

O’Sullivan determined that Darcie was suffering psychosomatic seizures and faints, very real but not caused by a physical problem.

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

He sniffs Heather’s hair and faints from delight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

This is a shock and she faints, and the burned one gets out of the mirror and into the pretty one’s body.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

To spot S301 -- which is two billion times fainter than the star Betelgeuse in our sky -- the team of astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Chilean desert.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

It is more than one million times fainter than the Sun's surface, which is why it is invisible in normal daylight.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

When compared with sunlit features on Mars, 3I/ATLAS appeared roughly 10,000 to 100,000 times fainter.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

As brands go through creative directors like tissues, the connection to what made a house beloved seems to get fainter and fainter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

As they passed, I shrank back, listening as the tramp and shouts grew fainter.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Like hundreds of volunteers and rescuers, he has spent hours clinging to the faintest hope there may be survivors in the rubble, despite the 7.4 magnitude quake that struck this coffee capital on Monday morning.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Is there the faintest suggestion in the room that, if you do this, you won’t get older?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2025

Even the faintest irritation, say a restaurant chain tinkering with its logo, can summon thousands to the same digital square.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025

The camera's very large mirrors will help scientists detect the faintest of light and distortions emitted from these objects and track them as they speed through space.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025

It catches for an instant against the edge of the zipper, making the faintest scraping sound.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

I learned about chocolatines last year from the Journal’s Joshua Robinson, who fainted from embarrassment when I walked into a Toulouse patisserie and ordered a “chocolatini,” like it was happy hour at an airport Chili’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

One 32-year-old Berliner, Diane, told AFP she had fainted from the heat once already, despite drinking three litres of water.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

When the “not guilty” verdicts were announced, she fainted and had to receive medical attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Her group was among at least 100 people left waiting in a situation she described as "very stressful; people arguing, someone fainted, someone was sick".

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

A young woman with dreadlocks sagged against the man beside her; Emma wondered if she’d fainted in fear.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

A majority -- 87 percent -- of respondents reported at least one health-related impact during the sweltering week, including disrupted sleep, tiredness at work as well as dizziness, fainting and a faster heartbeat.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

For all its immortal ideas and all those outsized news reports of people fainting, “The Exorcist” could’ve faded from memory if so much of what came after didn’t prove to be a cheap imitation.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

As it worsens, however, it can lead to fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath, fainting, heart failure, and in some cases premature death.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

He had told her that he had spent more than 30 hours at sea, and was "fainting" from exhaustion by the time he reached the waters off Taean, a county on South Korea's western coast.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

I was almost fainting and dying to get back to college and tell everybody.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath