dimmed

Example Sentences

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Dimmed car headlights might pick up spooked jackrabbits hopping through the desert brush, but the village’s unlit houses are all but invisible in the darkness.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2017

Dimmed out as an air-raid precaution, the outdoor stadium had been plagued nightly by the whir of airplane motors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dimmed out was the night bonfire before the Leland Stanford football game.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not hers to wander through the waste of years, Sowing in hope, to gather nought but tears; Nor care, nor strife, Dimmed her brief day of life.

From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Ask me not—yet, oh! for thee Dearer thoughts my bosom fill, Dimmed with tears I cannot see To do thy gracious will: Take, then, my prayer—In heaven may we Behold thee lovelier still!

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 by Chambers, Robert