dimness

How To Use dimness In A Sentence

• The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness). Jezebel
• See an eye care professional if you have any loss or dimness of vision, pain, fluid coming from the eye, double vision, redness, or swelling.
• Some people may find cooking and eating in dimness romantic, but we’d prefer that it be a choice and not a requirement. December « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
• Doubtful it may be, whether it should be called dimness of understanding, or rather perverse ingenuity, that men reason thus, when the facts are: So general is the disposition to abuse power, that wherever it is accumulated, it will surely be abused; accordingly it must be distributed as equally as possible. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society
• Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side. Anthony Liccione 
• Then he snapped his fingers, and the moujik came padding out of the dimness of the wood; he was heeled and ready as well, his eyes glaring above his furze of beard. Fiancée
• Let us remember, in our judgment of what may appear to us even grave errors of opinion in the book, that its author has fought for every step of ground that has been gained of late years by spiritual religion in Germany; and, while we lament the "dimness" which this great man confesses with such Christian-like humility, let us acknowledge the grandeur of his idea of the kingdom of God, and the earnestness of his devotion to it. The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.
• Thus then they entered into the narrow pass aforesaid, which was the ingate to the Vale from the Waste, and little by little its dimness swallowed up their long line. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
• And then it follows, chapter 9: 1, "For the dimness shall not be like to that wherein it was ill with him, at what time the former [afflicter] lightly touched the land of Zabulon, and the land of From the Talmud and Hebraica
• They asked one another what she could be saying to them with those frightful gestures which accompanied her speech, and mounted round about her on the tables, beds, and sycamore boughs, they strove with open mouths and craned necks to grasp the vague stories hovering before their imaginations, through the dimness of the theogonies, like phantoms wrapped in cloud. Salammbo