Example sentences for: faint

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

  • Alone in her kitchen with her cutting board, she seems to be smelling her own faint over-ripeness; when Mortensen holds his stare a beat too long, her body bends toward his as if it knows, on a cellular level, that this way lies nourishment.

  • It may just have been heat or hunger that caused one boy chorister to faint as if on cue as soon as the last chord faded during a rehearsal that morning, but it was easy to believe he had been felled by the music.

  • Damning with faint praise and exceptionally witty prose, Gill skewers both Harold Ross ("As for manners, Ross might truly be said not to have had any") and William Shawn ("Shawn, by contrast, might be a revenant from some small eighteenth-century court").

  • Don't faint when it happens.

  • If your dilemma is genuine (though Prudie feels a faint pull on her leg) by no means should you be maneuvered into bed.


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