dimness

How To Use dimness In A Sentence

• What the dimness suggests here is the fading of one age and the approach of a new one, a cultural agon crystallized in these two men.
• Thus islanded in dimness and the murmur of traffic fading toward silence, one is apt for the ministration. Bernard DeVoto's "The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto," reviewed by Michael Dirda
• The light of the short winter day was already beginning to fade, and in the dimness the estate looked well-kept. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
• The woman and man make their way through the dimness of settling ash and sulfurous mist, their attention divided between their destination and the danger and opportunity around them.
• Without its usual brilliant lighting on the rose-pink marble the alcove in which the pool was situated had a murky dimness. A WORM OF DOUBT
• The first thing he saw through a gap between the huts was a cooking pot, a grey bulge in the dimness.
• I could barely see her in the dimness; the grey light beyond the doors had deepened to slaty blue. NIGHT SISTERS
• Evenings we attacked dinner, surprised at how often we japed and laughed; afterward we took our ease before a stone fireplace, in dimness that burning pine logs made flickery fragrant, and talked more seriously, traded memories, thoughts, and-shyly at first-dreams. Explorations
• Stephen Pound, the Labour MP from Ealing North, will advocate caliginosity (dimness; darkness) on the floor of Parliament. TIME.com: Top Stories
• As his eyes adjusted to the dimness he began to feel dominated by the blank stares of the plaster martyrs.