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dimly

[ US /ˈdɪmɫi/ ]
[ UK /dˈɪmli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. with a dim light
    a dimly lit room
  2. in a manner lacking interest or vitality
    a palely entertaining show
  3. in a dim indistinct manner
    we perceived the change only dimly

How To Use dimly In A Sentence

  • Walk into a dimly-lit gallery and approach the welded steel device fitted with a battery of fan-shaped movie screens.
  • He dragged himself up the walk, dimly noticing that the front window was covered with condensation.
  • The sounds of the phoney election war are already dimly audible. Times, Sunday Times
  • You go into a dimly lit room with hip-hop and R&B music and you punch bags. The Sun
  • A nightlight glowed dimly in the corner of the children's bedroom.
  • In Mortal Coils, an interaction of oneiromancy and mediumism was embodied in multiple projections among slowly twisting ropes, as if something were dimly viewed while transpiring underwater or in a netherworld.
  • The old image of snooker is of seedy, smoky, dimly-lit halls filled with sallow-complexioned men, pint in one hand, cigarette in the other as they wait their turn at the table.
  • The interior is a delight, a beamed, strawed, trestle-tabled, dimly lit farmhouse attended to by waiters in sashed smocks.
  • Babies are weak and vulnerable in the presence of huge shapes that they can only dimly perceive.
  • dimly, distantly, voices sounded in the stillness
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