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

But tears, rough, manly tears, for the dead, Like dews of night bedim the glass, With throbbing hearts and lifted hands, We name him—“Dowling! of the Pass.”

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

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

What though a few clouds bedim and deform "the innocent brightness of the new-born day?"

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde