bedim

Example Sentences

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The darkening cinematic mood that has engulfed even 007 won't be allowed to bedim the Dolby Theatre.

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2013

Ash and dust bedim the sky, blocking the sun's light.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.

From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

From all his wild compassions flown; Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; He wanders all alone.

From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Schiller, Friedrich

And all the world was bright with her through him: But dark with strife, Like heaven’s own sun that storming clouds bedim, Was all his life.

From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Swinburne, Algernon Charles