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• Lipstein trades the faintly antique unease of literary reputation for the all-too-current ones of money and technology.2023 July 9, Alexandra Jacobs, “Grazed and Confused: In ‘The Vegan,’ a Guilty Hedge Funder Eats His Feelings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry thinky
• Some crater rings show faintly through the lunabase; others just break surface.2014, Frederick I. Ordway, Advances in Space Science and Technology, page 42. From the entry lunabase
• I laughed faintly, then added, “Just kidding,” and gave him jazz hands.2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry jazz hands
• She had a perfect nose, narrow and faintly sloped at the end to give it character.2012, Bronwyn Scott, How to Disgrace a Lady, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry boning
• He felt it weird to have this discussion with a laugh track running faintly in the background.2012, Ridley Pearson, No Witnesses, →ISBN. From the entry laugh track
• "I'm 35," Tess said faintly, wondering if she should add: It was an accident!2008 November 30, Laura Lippman, “The Girl in the Green Raincoat”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry supersperm
• If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443). From the entry wheeze
• It’s bedwettingly exciting and faintly silly at the same time; therefore it must be truly brilliant.1993, “Crazy dog”, in Woroni, volume 45, number 3, Acton, Canberra: Australian National University, page 28, column 4. From the entry bedwettingly
• He looked faintly loutish, with smarmy hair and a hint of a moustache.1985, Lynn Pan, Into China's Heart: An Emigré's Journey Along the Yellow River, page 200. From the entry smarmy
• She let him take it and sat on, smiling very faintly.1972, John Newton Chance, The dead tale-tellers, page 111. From the entry Mona Lisa
• Rufus stuck out his tongue at Vivaldo, who was watching him with a faintly quizzical frown.1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 42. From the entry stick one's tongue out
• Hemstock (rather faintly): I canna abide to feel a man’s arms shiverin’ agen me.1941, D.H. Lawrence, The Merry-Go-Round, act I, scene 1. From the entry tallywag
• Although its closeness was mitigated with lavender-water, the atmosphere smelt faintly of rotten apples.1933, Ethel Lina White, chapter 5, in Some Must Watch. From the entry lavender water
• Elation mingled with something faintly apologetic in the abrupt bestowal of the baronet's unexpected confidence.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry bestowal
• McKenna sat on the low window seat, faintly aureoled, their empty cups beside them on the floor.1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “Encounters”, in Sunday Evening, page 176. From the entry aureoled
• A veiled sunlight lit up faintly the grey sheet of water where the river was embayed.1916, James Joyce, chapter IV, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC. From the entry embayed
• This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243. From the entry suffuse
• But the mineral-rich blood is what gives the stew its ballast and faintly metallic hint of a licked knife.2018 March 12, Ligaya Mishan, “Filipino Food Finds a Place in the American Mainstream”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry licked
• Authentic crème fraîche has a silky-smooth, almost cream-cheesey texture and a rich, faintly sour yet slightly sweet, nutty flavor.2017, Kitchen Smarts: Questions and Answers to Boost Your Cooking IQ, Boston, Mass.: America’s Test Kitchen, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry cream-cheesey
• The Uncles Brickell, Swarfega kings, enseamed with swarf and scobs, skin measled with gunmetal but glistening faintly, loud in the smoke.2014, John Goodby, “The Uncles”, in Songs of Ourselves, page 27. From the entry scobs
• Then the German guns suddenly went off with one or two gunflashes faintly visible to the side of the smoke-screen.2014, Alexander Werth, Leningrad, 1943: Inside a City Under Siege, page 44. From the entry gunflash
• After all, its encore introduced some new musical elements, including a pulse faintly suggestive of an Afro-Cuban tumbao.2007 February 12, Nate Chinen, “A Flamenco Master Is His Own Ensemble”, in New York Times. From the entry tumbao
• Uttering love, that outlasts or outwastes Time's attrition, exiles appear again, But faintly altered in eyes and skin.2001, Geoffrey Hill, “Wreaths”, in Daniel McGuiness, editor, Holding Patterns: Temporary Poetics in Contemporary Poetry, page 74. From the entry outwaste
• James could smell her, faintly sweaty and shampooey.1998, Russell Smith, Noise. From the entry shampooey
• For some reason people have always found it faintly comic.1989, John Banville, The Book of Evidence, page 7. From the entry daphne
• All around her the holo displays glowed faintly.1986, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Heart of the Comet, Toronto, O.N. […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 327. From the entry autofac
• The white clapboard siding was black-banded in the overhead moonlight; the windows showed bookshelved walls lighted faintly from within.1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 52. From the entry bookshelved
• Surface, especially pseudoscutal area, shining, faintly shagreened.1943, Public Health Reports, page 1870. From the entry shagreened
• "In a minute," said the commodore faintly.1929, St. George's Gazette - Volume 47, page 247. From the entry infight
• I am not even faintly like a rose.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN. From the entry extemporizing
• Faintly above the ocean's roar Mermaids are ringing phantom bells, Fragments of buried ocean-lore Echo in hearts of singing-shells.1919, Clara Catherine Prince, American Poetry Magazine - Page 130. From the entry ocean-lore
• Detached from the more faintly registered backgrounds, unimplicated in the receding perspectives of Pabst’s compositions, these are simply actors standing in front of a set.2007 September 25, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times. From the entry unimplicated
• Luminous silver gray eyes outlined in sooty lashes; a pert retroussé nose and faintly carmine tinted lips, slightly full, finished the oval face.2004, Anita-Louise Johnson, chapter 1, in Faithful, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry retroussé
• The taste is faintly regressive, reminiscent of the pleasure to be found in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when one is ravenously hungry.1992 March 15, Frances Frank Marcus, “A Sweet Pleasure From New Orleans: The Praline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry praline
• “I guess I’ll just have the combination plate,” I tell the lady behind the counter, faintly embarrassed at my inability to say the words.1983 October 27, D.L. Stewart, “Of words and foods and roots — and ties unbound”, in The Journal Herald, 176th year, number 257, Dayton…. From the entry nalesnyk
• The crowded shelves give off an inviting, consoling, seductive odor that is also tinctured faintly with something pernicious, with poison and doom.1982, Saul Bellow, “Him with His Foot in His Mouth”, in Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row…. From the entry tincture
• Of course, the new moon is not visible, but one or two days after the new moon, a faintly glowing moon sickle appears.1981, Harold W[alter] Hoehner, “The Day of Christ’s Crucifixion”, in Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ (Contemporary Evangelical…. From the entry moonsickle
• Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48. From the entry lunar

Meaning of faintly

1. adverb In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.

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How do you use faintly in a sentence?

Faintly is used as an adverb. For example: “Faintlier, faintlier came the footfalls to his ear, until of all the faint sounds that came, by the abandoned air, to his ear, not one was a footfall, as far as he could judge.”

What is a short sentence with faintly?

“"In a minute," said the commodore faintly.”

What does faintly mean?

Faintly means in a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.