faint

Example Sentences

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Filled with dark, deserted streets and way-spooky buildings, this visually atmospheric film is not for the faint of heart.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Inside, time seemed to move differently: tennis whites drying beneath the afternoon sun, bridge rooms carrying the faint smell of cigarettes and talcum powder, elderly members reading newspapers beneath slow ceiling fans.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

The old guard held that the universe was eternal and unchanging, but in 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson discovered the faint background radiation left over from the cosmos’ earliest moments.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

You know the weather: warm wind, faint smell of rain, the vague sense that a storm could roll in at any minute.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

I heard the babble of what must have been a small stream, and in the faint moonlight I could see Mr. Drysdale standing right at the water’s edge.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan