He hurriedly walked along a dimly lit corridor in search for a way out. From LearnThat.org.
We perceived the change only dimly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A dimly lit room. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a dim room; a dim flashlight. ,a dim object in the distance. ,a dim idea. ,a dim color. ,a dim sound. ,eyes dim with tears. ,a dim chance of winning. From Dictionary.com.
All the evidence gleaned, of course, in dimly lit caves, from the few, remaining, extant sources available to them. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Nomination Follies] Reference
Countless old odors called the dimly lit cargo bay of the Rocinante their home. From Wordnik.com. [Reap the Whirlwind] Reference
Half-forgotten pasts were recalled dimly around flickering Dark Age watch fires. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted] Reference
I recalled dimly the struggle, the fighting, the strange feeling I had as my senses began to leave me. From Wordnik.com. [Weapons of Mystery] Reference
He recalled dimly his pleasure as a boy at the vision of the world given him through a bit of similarly shaped glass. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
He looked at me kind of dimly, and I'll be shot if two tears didn't well up in his eyes and run down his cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [In the Arena Stories of Political Life] Reference
I dimly notice that it takes me .00467 seconds longer than usual. From Wordnik.com. [D.X. (Flag Day Challenge)] Reference
Inside, light filtered dimly through shattered stained-glass windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Fields] Reference
Back home, Patrick was only dimly aware of his brother's loss of faith. From Wordnik.com. [Brothers in Arms] Reference
He was dimly aware that he should, but he just couldn't summon the ambivalence. From Wordnik.com. [Complicated Game] Reference
A generator kicked in, but with only enough power to keep the huge arena dimly lit. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost City] Reference
We are half-animal beings, driven by instinctual forces that we can only dimly know. From Wordnik.com. [Eyes Of The Beholders] Reference
Escalators and landings, stairways and turnstile areas also can be too dimly illuminated. From Wordnik.com. [Shaping the City: Let there be light (carefully) in Metro stations] Reference
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was only dimly understood when Tsongas was first diagnosed in 1983. From Wordnik.com. [Tsongas....And The Cancer Question] Reference
But the defenders huddled in the dimly lit building could never be sure what would happen. From Wordnik.com. [The People Vs. The Plotters] Reference
Light penetrates the womb, but dimly: the brightest is toned down to a diffuse orange glow. From Wordnik.com. [Special Issue: How Kids Grow Do You Hear What I Hear?] Reference
She pulled me into a dark den, where one lamp shone dimly in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Game] Reference
We sat on the floor of a dimly-lit room in a run-down building in a small town in northeast China. From Wordnik.com. [Safe At Last] Reference
I realized, dimly, that if this was Mike's car, there must be more to him than I had thought. From Wordnik.com. [Euro-car at the Pool] Reference
And then to Flushing, in Queens, N.Y., and a tiny, dimly lit Sichuan restaurant called Little Pepper. From Wordnik.com. [Not For the Lily-Livered] Reference
An interior light makes it easier to find foods, especially if the freezer is in a dimly lighted area. From Wordnik.com. [As food prices rise, consider a stand-alone freezer] Reference
It is light outside, but inside this room, hundreds of feet in the air, everything is dimly unfamiliar. From Wordnik.com. [Night Terror: Apocalypse] Reference
Victoria Hale was only dimly aware of kala azar during these years, and she'd never been to India or Africa. From Wordnik.com. [CHASING BLACK FEVER] Reference
In the dimly lit transport hall, visitors stroll among 72 egg-shaped robots moving noiselessly in little herds. From Wordnik.com. [This Fair Could Flop] Reference
Apron-clad workers scurry throughout the dimly lit food court preparing for the onslaught of the caffeine-deprived. From Wordnik.com. [It's Never Too Late to Become a Mall Rat] Reference
I'd been dimly aware that I was more likely to get a migraine after a bad night's sleep, but this was a revelation. From Wordnik.com. [Migraine: the alternative solutions] Reference
In a dimly lit room high above Berlin's busy Kurfurstendamm Boulevard, Dirk Schmidt's gaze is fixed on a PC monitor. From Wordnik.com. [Hey--Where Can I Get Some Of That?] Reference
Packed with the patter of gunsels and molls in dimly lit, smoke-filled rooms, noir doesn't get much "noirer" than this. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: Classic "Under The Radar" Gangster Movies] Reference
This might seem an arcane comparison, especially to the many people who only dimly remember that the Kosovo war ever happened. From Wordnik.com. [Best-Laid Plans] Reference
"I use it to call my family in Pakistan," says the man, standing in a dimly lit shop with brown handprints staining the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Afghan Diary: Bizarre Bazaar] Reference
For 30 minutes a volunteer lay in a quiet, dimly lit room with eyes open and head in a tunnel with detectors embedded in the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Gray Matters] Reference
Some people may enjoy lying in a dimly lit room, closing their eyes or listening to soft music while focusing on their out breaths. From Wordnik.com. [Better Sleep Through Meditation: 4 Techniques To Try Tonight] Reference
But sporting motivation works in all sorts of unpredictable ways, many of them only dimly understood by the participants themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket's Contract Hitters] Reference
Had more people paid attention, we might be farther along in figuring out how to solve the problems he sensed but only dimly understood. From Wordnik.com. [Long After The Alarm Went Off] Reference
And with little warning, Americans find themselves once more in the middle of battles they only dimly comprehend -- and may well be losing. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting in the Shadows] Reference
But this year these ties aren't going to go unnoticed -- and we won't let him get away with trading away our safety net in dimly-lit rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy: Social Security Doublespeak] Reference
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