DIM in a Sentence

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For DIM, below is one of 229 sentences:
Then a man's figure approached, coming so close to her that under their formless wrappings they seemed merged in one dim outline.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIM
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dim
 a.  emitting only a small amount of light; lacking in brightness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  or whom he could hold entranced before a ledge of granite thrusting up through the fern while he unrolled the huge panorama of the ice age, and the long dim stretches of succeeding time.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Then a man's figure approached, coming so close to her that under their formless wrappings they seemed merged in one dim outline.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  He advanced a step or two into the dim room.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  The dark cedars on either side of the graveled drive met in an arch overhead, turning the long avenue into a dim tunnel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Near the house, Scarlett was at the point of speaking again when she saw her mother in the dim shadows of the porch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Before this new emotion, Honey receded into a dim haze.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  The dim room with towering walls completely filled with dark books depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  There was a tenseness about her, a glow in her eyes that he had never seen before, and even in the dim light he could see the rosy flush on her cheeks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  The street with its over-arching trees was softly, deeply black under a dim star-studded sky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  He walked out into the dim hall and picked up the hat he had dropped on the doorsill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  She unlocked the door and went down the dim winding stair with a light heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  In the early morning hours before the noises of the town awoke, the cannon at Kennesaw Mountain could be heard faintly, far away, a low dim booming that might have passed for summer thunder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  But the dim thundering was so distant that, for a moment, she could not tell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  The dim room swam with heat and pain and droning flies, and time went by on such dragging feet Scarlett could scarcely remember the morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  The narrow street was a dim tunnel, but faintly through the thick leafy ceiling the hideous red glow of the sky penetrated and shadows chased one another down the dark way like mad ghosts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim.
2  Louise Renne, who ran unopposed for city attorney, threw a dim sum party for successful treasurer candidate Susan Leal.
3  The dim outline of a building loomed up out of the mist.
4  In the dim light he couldn't see clearly and ran bump into a tree.
5  He sat in a dim corner.
6  People who toiled in dim, dank factories were too exhausted to enjoy their family life.
7  The object was a dim blur in the moonlight.
8  Martha managed to produce a dim, watery smile.
9  Night vision declines as well; therefore, trying to read labels in dim lighting may lead to errors.
10  I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.
11  The soft luster of the silk in the dim light was pleasing.
12  The marble basin was removed; in its place, stood a deal table and a kitchen chair: these objects were visible by a very dim light proceeding from a horn lantern, the wax candles being all extinguished.
13  Seen by the dim light, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty.
14  Now, uttered before a stranger, the accusation cut me to the heart; I dimly perceived that she was already obliterating hope from the new phase of existence which she destined me to enter.
15  He can recall dimly once or twice having seen Uncle Lyle.