Example sentences for: dimly

How can you use “dimly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One of the strongest poems in the book, the that begins "I cannot remember the name of that seacoast city," evokes Monet as Walcott reconstitutes, with the help of one of his own watercolors, a dimly remembered stippled seascape in northern France.

  • What is the evidence for such deep originality in the Codex Leicester ? The manuscript itself, whose pages are dimly illumined in a series of glass cases at the museum, is not, at first blush, a fetching object.

  • These male figures are plotters in a dimly lit world where the CIA, corporate powers, criminals, and small-time schemers do deals, stage coups, order up murders.

  • The affluent classes are more comfortable than ever--we can barely, dimly imagine the world, just two generations ago, when millions of Americans cherished the Sears Roebuck catalog for its utility as toilet paper.

  • When the cast of The Kennedy Tapes speculates whether Khrushchev is pulling a "Suez-Hungary," a quick glance at its introduction quickly reminds us of that dimly remembered corner of the Cold War.


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