FAINT in a Sentence

Learn FAINT from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For FAINT, below is one of 237 sentences:
The cat had sprung to Zeena's rocking-chair, and the heat of the fire was beginning to draw out the faint sharp scent of the geraniums.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAINT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
faint
 a.  lacking strength or vigor ; weak
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He was still kneeling when his eyes, on a level with the lower panel of the door, caught a faint ray beneath it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  She looked straight at Mattie as she spoke, a faint smile deepening the vertical lines between her nose and chin.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  The cat had sprung to Zeena's rocking-chair, and the heat of the fire was beginning to draw out the faint sharp scent of the geraniums.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  His breath in her face was strong with Bourbon whisky mingled with a faint fragrance of mint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  In spite of her choked-back tears, Scarlett thrilled to the never- failing magic of her mother's touch, to the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet that came from her rustling silk dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  There entered with her the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet, which seemed always to creep from the folds of her dresses, a fragrance that was always linked in Scarlett's mind with her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  "Well, twouldn do no hahm ef you wuz ter faint now an den," advised Mammy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  See if I don't, even if I don't scream and faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  If fainting, or pretending to faint, would do the trick, then she would faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  There was a faint wild fragrance of sweet shrub on the breeze and the world smelled good enough to eat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  Scarlett knew that the fragrance carried on the faint breeze came from the grove of great oaks in the rear of the big house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  A faint blush was creeping over his face as she turned for he was timid with girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  She went up the stairs so swiftly that when she reached the landing, she thought she was going to faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  How fragile and tender women are, he thought, the mere mention of war and harshness makes them faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  A few faint gleams of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.
2  She heard a faint, almost imperceptible cry.
3  Her voice had a faint American or Canadian twang.
4  His voice sounded faint and far away.
5  He stopped to try to adjust his vision to the faint starlight.
6  I believe in the fairy story u wrote for me, and myself becomes the faint flower in the story.
7  In the east we could see the first faint glimmer of dawn.
8  Afterwards, retrospective fear of the responsibility would make her feel almost faint.
9  The heat made him feel faint.
10  Like sunlight penetrates every inch of skin feeling faint.
11  He felt faint for lack of food.
12  I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice.
13  There is a faint possibility that he might have got the wrong day.
14  The relation between the original book and this new film is very faint.
15  The smile is faint, the light cloud, knead in sadness.