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Faint in sentence

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After all, that is what has enabled the country, against all odds, to avoid all-out conflict, making it a beacon – however faint – of hope in a crisis-ravaged region.
Writing that sentence almost makes me faint with boredom.
Finally, the two events saw the emergence of two rival political courts, each exuding the faint but unmistakable odor of a looming conflict.
At the very least, his victory kills off the faint hopes of concluding the two jumbo trade deals that Barack Obama’s administration had been negotiating: the completed but unratified Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with 11 Pacific countries, and the stalled Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union.
It was heart-rending to witness this faint semblance of proper schooling – all the more so because the children clearly valued their education.
In complex systems, these faint signals are more plugged in to the whole and can have multiplicative rather than linear effects.
Describing Venice in “the final period of her decline,” he wrote of “a ghost upon the sands of the sea, so weak – so quiet – so bereft of all but her loveliness, that we might well doubt, as we watched her faint reflection in the mirage of the lagoon, which was the City, and which the Shadow.”
'What doubt can there be of the existence of God?' he asked with a faint smile.
The smile was very faint, hardly perceptible, and in spite of it the stern expression of the eyes did not change.
'I'm sorry that between half-past six and nine is just the time when I cannot come,' she replied with a faint smile.
Varenka saw that he wanted to speak, and guessing the subject she grew faint with joy and fear.
He felt faint and could hardly drag his staggering legs out of the bog, and for an instant he was in doubt.
'Oh, what a night!' cried Veslovsky, gazing at the corner of the hut and the carts, visible in the faint after-glow through the now open barn-doors as in a frame.
And beneath the livid sky, in the faint daylight of this winter afternoon, it seemed as if all the blackness of the Voreux, and all its flying coal dust, had fallen upon the plain, powdering the trees, sanding the roads, sowing the earth.
Her frightened stammering grew faint, and only the ardent breath of the man was heard.
Jeanlin, awaking from his faint, moaned.
And on seeing the van, which was passing before the church, she grew faint and pale.
She reopened the door after the young man and closed it violently, leaving the others motionless and mute in the faint light of a candle-end which Alzire had just lighted.
He was seized with curiosity, and approached the hole; the child had disappeared, and a faint gleam came from the second adder.
But the engineer was choked, and could not speak; he felt faint.
Polyps and echinoderms abounded on the seafloor: various isis coral, cornularian coral living in isolation, tufts of virginal genus Oculina formerly known by the name "white coral," prickly fungus coral in the shape of mushrooms, sea anemone holding on by their muscular disks, providing a literal flowerbed adorned by jellyfish from the genus Porpita wearing collars of azure tentacles, and starfish that spangled the sand, including veinlike feather stars from the genus Asterophyton that were like fine lace embroidered by the hands of water nymphs, their festoons swaying to the faint undulations caused by our walking.
A shot went off, I heard a faint hissing, and an animal dropped a few paces away, literally struck by lightning.
There our diving suits were removed, not without difficulty; and utterly exhausted, faint from lack of food and rest, I repaired to my stateroom, full of wonder at this startling excursion on the bottom of the sea.
At its summit there gaped the circular opening through which I had detected that faint glimmer, obviously daylight.
Like you, I'm a man neglected and unknown, living in the faint hope that someday I can pass on to future generations the fruits of my labors--figuratively speaking, by means of some contrivance left to the luck of winds and waves.
The air coming in under the door blew a little dust over the flags; he watched it drift along, and heard nothing but the throbbing in his head and the faint clucking of a hen that had laid an egg in the yard.
I thought you felt faint."
"For my part," said the chemist, "the sight of other people's blood doesn't affect me at all, but the mere thought of my own flowing would make me faint if I reflected upon it too much."
The thought that she had just escaped from death almost made her faint with terror.
Some are cited who faint at the smell of burnt hartshorn, of new bread—""Take care; you'll wake her!" said Bovary in a low voice.
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