fain

How To Use fain In A Sentence

• Through her suit, Suzie Nova felt the diamantine exterior of the alien contraption throb faintly below her feet, alive with incomprehensible energies that course through it like blood through arteries.
• Galanthus reginae-olgae is a reliable early flowerer, producing its faintly scented blooms as early as October.
• Even the Magdalene herself, eyes turned in horror from the abandoned grave to the radiant glory of the seraphim, had the faint touch of that naiveté in her eyes.
• I picked up the faint sound of a car in the distance.
• ‘There were many times when I felt faint at matches because of menstrual cramps,’ Susan says.
• There is a faint hissing sound and a burning smell. Times, Sunday Times
• I could still detect the faint smell of bleach.
• Stooping, I lifted the belt, ornamental silver medallions that tinkled faintly together like coins of small denominations. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
• When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
• The relation between the original book and this new film is very faint.