Example sentences for: faint

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

  • 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.

  • Do Americans grow faint at the sight of their own blood?

  • Restaurants in and near the market are like first-aid stations for those who become faint with hunger at the sight of such bounty.

  • The men faint, run away, or become deathly ill of susto (fright).

  • a piece of celestial Americana" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Maslin calls it "a supremely improbable triumph," all the more powerful because the film's "wholesome radiance and soothing natural beauty are distinctly at odds with the famously unwholesome Lynch imagination" (the New York Times ). Turan is the only one who hears the faint sucking of Dennis Hopper's oxygen mask in the background, calling the film "too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing" (the Los Angeles Times ). (Lynchnet has a page devoted to the film complete with trailers and pictures shot on location.)


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