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• Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.From the entry race
• The fogged window was only semitransparent and I could only dimly make out the figures.From the entry semitransparent
• Phelim peered at each face, but could see no one who resembled his dimly remembered father.2000, Geraldine McCaughrean, The Stones are Hatching, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry stoor worm
• Some light came dimly through cracks around that connecting, unhandled door, and through the roof.1986, Norma Johnston, The Watcher in the Mist, page 170. From the entry unhandled
• Dimly through the mists they could descry the long arm of the mountains rising on their left.1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, page 15. From the entry descry
• By that time Virginia Beach was abeam and Cape Henry Lighthouse appeared dimly over the port bow.1934 July, A.C. Strong, “A Line Squall off Cape Hatteras”, in Yachting, volume LVI, page 90, column 2. From the entry windjam
• They are putting America in a more honest context — our “Star-Spangled Banner” dimly seen through the mists of deep injury.2017 September 25, Lee Siegel, “Why Kaepernick Takes the Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2021. From the entry take a knee
• Vigil sat across from her, leaning against the wall of what looked like a cave, his corona glowing dimly.2015, Rawles Marie Lumumba, chapter 4, in Duskfall (Nightshade; book 1), [s.l.]: Takaboo Books, →ISBN. From the entry corona
• 'Certainly you may,' said Keats civilly, 'we're just shooting the bries.' Eliot whimpered dimly in the calid afternoon.2008, Tom Mathews, “Not with a Bang”, in Keats and Chapman, Dublin: New Island Books, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry calid
• The rudiments of particulate inheritance were dimly understood already by the breeders of cattle and apples, but nobody was being systematic.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 41. From the entry particulate
• Japan glowed dimly in the foreign policy firmament.1997, Michael Schaller, “Japan: From Enemy to Ally, 1945–50”, in Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation, New…. From the entry firmament
• The vault was low-ceilinged, dimly lit and gigantic.1995, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry ceilinged
• Jewish emigres from the Soviet Union, the couple once viewed American society only dimly, through a haze of cultural differences.1988 September 1, Alan Sverdlik, “Leaving the Old World: Soviet Jews Are Comfortable With American Life”, in The Atlanta Constitution…. From the entry kotleta
• The depictee was seen dimly in the truck but somewhat more clearly outside the house, standing and stooping and bending.1988, West’s South Eastern Reporter, page 147, column 1. From the entry depictee
• The sky was filled with steam; a horrible outcry arose, and the shape of the Guyascutus became dimly visible.1968, Albert Raymond Kitzhaber, Language/Rhetoric. From the entry guyascutus
• She could not even dimly understand Helen's merry protestation that it was fun to make people wonder and keep them guessing.1924, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, “Chapter 7”, in The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson. From the entry keep someone guessing
• I was being carried along a dimly lighted, tunnel-like place, slung, sackwise, across the shoulder of a Burman.1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. From the entry sackwise
• The City, it seemed to her, knew it dimly, with a yearning faint as dawn's forelight, which grew stronger with each passing hour, inevitably.2003, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Queen City Jazz. From the entry forelight
• In the numerophilic Western culture, it may seem strange that the cost-benefit of human milk has not been even dimly perceived until recently.1977, Suraj Gupte, Newer Horizons in Tropical Pediatrics, Jaypee Brothers, page 4. From the entry numerophilic
• One could see part of the dimly lit court where under an enclosed poplar two soldiers on a stone bench were playing lansquenet.1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire. From the entry lansquenet
• In another moment he had opened a door, and, drawing aside a heavy curtain, obsequiously bowed Tarzan into a dimly lighted apartment.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company…. From the entry bow
• Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC. From the entry parapet
• Despite the drab backdrop of his performances—a dimly lit bathroom with a popcorn ceiling—his grooves were both riveting and infectious, earning him plaudits from several TikTok stalwarts.2021 May 7, Barrett Swanson, “The Anxiety of Influencers”, in Harper's Magazine. From the entry popcorn ceiling
• Jeff Clanagan, who ran Master P's, No Limit Films at the time, was responsible for figuring out how to get the dimly lit flick into theaters.2008, Vibe, volume 16, numbers 1-16, page 100. From the entry lit flick
• Imagine a race of aliens that develops on a dimly lit world perpetually shrouded in clouds so that vision would be less useful for survival than on Earth.1999, Clifford A. Pickover, The Science of Aliens, page 47. From the entry race
• There was a tense, angry silence as they faced each other sparringly in Abbey's dimly lit lounge, then Dalene hissed accusingly, 'You just don't care, do you?'1982, Yvonne Whittal, Bitter-Sweet Waters, page 144. From the entry sparringly

Meaning of dimly

1. adverb In a dim manner; not clearly.

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How do you use dimly in a sentence?

Dimly is used as an adverb. For example: “Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.”

What is a short sentence with dimly?

“Japan glowed dimly in the foreign policy firmament.”

What does dimly mean?

Dimly means in a dim manner; not clearly.