dimness

Example Sentences

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Mr. Broderick, himself a sometime movie star, brings a slyly funny air of noblesse oblige that dovetails amusingly with Jay’s pompous, blinkered dimness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Fifteen dancers sit in dimness, supervised by some kind of overseer.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Although the evolution and spectra of the event resembled a binary star merger, its dimness pointed to a star-planet merger instead.

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023

Our first day of daylight saving time, eagerly awaited by so many, seemed anticlimactic on Sunday as clouds hid the evening sun, and what we had saved seemed only to be dimness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2023

In the dimness I was able to make out a number of doors set in the walls.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi