Example sentences for: faint

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

  • This stuff is not, however, for the faint of heart.

  • 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").

  • If she tells you everything's fine and only a faint hint of color remains, suggest she tell friends the Persian weavers were famously big drinkers.

  • 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.

  • I don't buy that Sam, in his fourth year at the time of his snatching, would, less than a decade later, have no recollection of the parents and siblings with whom he'd spent the first three, and that only the aroma of a cedar chest would rekindle faint memories of his warm life among the Cappadoras.


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