faintly

How To Use faintly 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.
• Stooping, I lifted the belt, ornamental silver medallions that tinkled faintly together like coins of small denominations. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
• I could faintly hear the sounds of running water somewhere in the building.
• She's talking about the faintly unimpressive exit poll results.
• Now, the dynamics of dynasticism are faintly understood by non-specialists. The Times Literary Supplement
• The poems come to us across a great chronological and cultural divide, and the reader is reminded of this fact by the occasional archaic word and by the unusual compounding, both of which impart a faintly disorienting tone.
• Less talked about is the way fame can make virtually all aspects of your life faintly ludicrous. Times, Sunday Times
• Galanthus reginae-olgae is a reliable early flowerer, producing its faintly scented blooms as early as October.
• He seemed faintly bored by the whole process.
• My portion of braised veal trotters seemed to have been overbraised by a week or two, and the lamb sausages tasted faintly of gas, as if they'd been blasted with a blowtorch.