Example sentences for: faints

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

  • Under the headline, Plaintiff faints at mention of sex, Ben Maclntyre, The Times correspondent in New York, reported [11 March 1994] about a Cincinnati woman who suffers from conversion hysteria , a fortunately rare affliction in which the individual collapses unconscious at the mention of a word or group of words.

  • The trial of the molester is becoming difficult to prosecute, for every time the molestee is called to testify, she faints, even if the prosecutor so much as spells the word s-e-x .

  • The girl he was dancing with either faints or burns to death as she goes up in smoke.

  • The man is immediately attracted and wants the woman, but when he gets near her and sees the skull face, he faints and hours later awakens in the hospital with his wife and family surrounding him.


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