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Example sentences for "dimly"

Lexicographically close words:
diminutive; diminutives; dimisit; dimitte; dimity; dimme; dimmed; dimmer; dimmest; dimming
  1. The Sub saluted and went aft, wondering dimly what manner of man his new skipper could be, since his spoken expression of the Sub's conduct was limited to four words.

  2. Dimly he wondered why his men had not come to his assistance.

  3. She stood in the doorway, dimly outlined, with her long braid over her shoulder and her voice still a little strained from crying.

  4. Once in a while it dimly comes back to me that, in a past existence unbrightened by Nell Van Buren and Phyllis Rivers, I came to Holland with the object of painting pictures.

  5. I half rose to do battle again; then, as I gazed up at that implacable Dutch back, I began dimly to understand how Holland, though a dot of a nation, tired out and defeated fiery Spain.

  6. They were trembling in their seats, wondering what would be the next act of the dreaded fellow dimly seen in the gloom, when Ethan Durrell performed his brave exploit which ended in the capture of the rogue.

  7. She could dimly discern the figures of her husband and child, as the former clung to the friendly limb.

  8. He also dimly imagined what the silk-covered shoulders of Sophia Vasilievna would appear like in reality, but the picture was too terrible, and he drove it from his mind.

  9. Nekhludoff opened the door and walked into a small cell, dimly lighted by a little metallic lamp standing on a low bunk.

  10. We hurried along through streets and alleys that were but dimly lighted, coming out at length on a wide avenue passing through open fields in the upper part of the city.

  11. I was but dimly conscious when he dropped me under a tree whose bare twigs lashed the air and stung my cheeks.

  12. The lantern, burning dimly under the roof, swung and rattled.

  13. He stared at the thinning crowd as if he had begun dimly to comprehend the havoc he had wrought.

  14. There was the fountain of all that wisdom which had been read aloud and heard with reverence in our household since a time I could but dimly remember.

  15. The subject of an approaching town-meeting was beginning to loom dimly in the discussions of the village.

  16. In that hard soul there may have been thus uncouthly expressed a loyalty for Something Higher, however dimly perceived.

  17. His people felt a property in him as their ideal man--the man who every Sunday expressed for them, better than they could, the thoughts and inquiries and aspirations which rose dimly in their own minds.

  18. Before long the weather had cleared, so that they could make out the horizon to windward, and from the deck could dimly discern the hazy mass of the chase as she hung on the lee-bow, apparently motionless.

  19. Great gray waves, measuring hundreds of feet from crest to crest, swept them resistlessly on towards the menacing shore, which could be seen dimly through the driving spray frowning to leeward.

  20. This matter is a detail, however, and it is always dangerous to discuss details in a subject which is so enormous, so dimly seen.

  21. Below, the minarets became pillars of silver, and the cloisters, dimly streaked by oil lamps, bounded the views of the temple with horizontal lines of shade.

  22. He felt dimly that, in a way, they were like the heaven his mother had taught him--altogether perfect and altogether unattainable and not to be thought of with any degree of familiarity.

  23. When he passed the cabin window he glanced anxiously in and saw dimly through the half-frosted glass that Miss Bridger was sitting against the wall by the table, tight-lipped and watchful.

  24. He bought me the books," young Crossjay growled, and plucked at grass blades and bit them, foreseeing dimly but certainly the termination of all this.

  25. Dimly as young women are informed, they have a youthful ardour of detestation that renders them less tolerant of the Egoist than their perceptive elder sisters.

  26. Half undressed and in deep dejection, he was standing before a large mirror; a wax taper burned dimly beside him.

  27. This is the outward fact; what is the truth which through this fact is dimly hinted to the prophetic mind?

  28. I dimly perceive that it must have had something to do with the temperament.

  29. Whatever might be the dimly formed design in the back of the older woman's fancy, her brilliant protege gave no sign of being her accomplice.

  30. They walked quickly through the long, dimly lighted passage to the entrance of the hall.

  31. I was dimly conscious of some one bending over me, and then knew no more.

  32. Most young women, in a situation so equivocal and so unfamiliar, would have been ill at ease, frightened, apprehensive of many vague and dimly suspected dangers.

  33. There would be time enough for that; and having made this concession to his manhood, he straightway put the idea by, dimly realizing to himself that it was unpleasant to him.

  34. He ran forward in the dark as he heard some one coming, and recognized Phyllis dimly against the lighted street behind.

  35. The hall was but dimly lighted by a single lamp and that flared above her head.

  36. He ran, not with a steady pace, each stride equal to the preceding, but with bounds, aside and forward, dimly calculating the safety of the footfall.

  37. Seti winced, for there was something dimly offensive in the calm way she stated the bald fact.

  38. One or two horsemen, one of whom was Wellington himself, were dimly seen through the smoke behind the guns.

  39. The old place was dimly lighted, but the brothers occupied the chancel only.

  40. In a narrow court at the back, dimly lit and not much frequented, there was a small open door under a lamp suspended from a high blank wall.

  41. The church was dimly lighted, and she thought perhaps the cleaners were within.

  42. The secret charms beneath her robe-folds hidden, Like heavens' joys to mortal eyes forbidden, Are dimly outlined to our rapturous gaze, Like veiled statues through a marble haze.

  43. A thick fog obscured the distant prospect entirely, but the shapes of the nearer trees and the dome of the wood dimly seen and dilated.

  44. We stayed in the house till the sun shone more dimly and we thought the afternoon was closing in, but though the calmness of the Lake was gone with the bright sunshine, yet it was delightfully pleasant.

  45. Captain Randolph Sever, as he slowly turned over on his back to face the owner of the voice which had so dimly penetrated the dreamless slumber resulting from a twenty-four-hour tour on outpost duty.

  46. The daylight had long faded; her child lay calmly sleeping by her side; a candle was burning dimly on the stand, and her husband was sobbing by her pillow.

  47. A man riding in hot haste was now dimly descried at the top of a distant hill.

  48. Behind this let a light burn dimly until a signal is given for full illumination.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dimly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    gently; low; pianissimo; piano; softly; vaguely; weakly