Sentence for faintly | Use faintly in a sentence

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• Soames smiled faintly. (8)
• Burnamy faintly echoed. (9)
• Janet laughed faintly. (10)
• Lavender rather faintly. (8)
• Swithin grinned faintly. (8)
• Clotilde faintly gasped. (10)
• Cornelia smiled faintly. (10)
• Daphne Wing smiled faintly. (8)
• Mrs. March echoed, faintly. (9)
• I said, ludicrously faintly. (10)
• Mrs. Mountstuart faintly shrieked. (10)
• Aunt Hester faintly rustled the sheet. (8)
• Irene smiled faintly and shook her head. (8)
• Laetitia breathed faintly of her gladness. (10)
• What conviction in that faintly lisping voice! (8)
• Aunt Lisbeth sat in a corner, faintly smiling. (10)
• His bearing is free, easy, and only faintly armoured. (8)
• She smiled faintly, lifted her eyes to him just for a second. (8)
• The voices are still faintly heard arguing on the threshold.] (8)
• The room reeked faintly of the eau-de-Cologne she was spraying. (8)
• They did not speak, but smiled faintly, looking at one another. (8)
• She stopped at last by a thin trunk whose bark glimmered faintly. (8)
• Her instinct of comedy set a dimple faintly working in her cheek. (10)
• Through the misty heavens above the trees the stars glimmered faintly. (13)
• The General now faintly guessed that he might be in error, for his part. (10)
• She surprised him ready dressed, standing by the fireplace, smiling faintly. (8)
• A young woman came forward; she had blue eyes and a faintly puzzled forehead. (8)
• She saw him shrug his shoulders ever so faintly with a puzzled little movement. (8)
• Under their feet crouched their respective dogs, faintly growling at each other. (8)
• She spoke very faintly, and was red in the face up to the time of our departure. (10)
• Rozsi saw him and stopped; her lips had parted with a faintly dismayed expression. (8)
• Few houses showed, but fields and trees faintly glistened, away to a loom of downs. (8)
• That gentleman faintly defended the stranger for the intrusion of the bumpkin tune. (10)
• The nostrils now were faintly alive under some sensitive impression of her musings. (10)
• She attempted the subject once, but faintly, and his careless parrying threw her out. (10)
• At last the limp sail faintly stirred; it flapped; it filled shallowly; the boat moved. (9)
• Her face was calm now, faintly smiling, a little eager, provocative in its joy of life. (8)
• That smile, faintly impudent, was so infectious, that Gyp was melted to a slight response. (8)
• She smiled faintly and said it was the hour for Anna and Ursel and Kith and Liese to be out. (10)
• The bronze face and the milky bowed to one another ceremoniously; the latter faintly flushing. (10)
• Neither changing colour nor dropping her eyes, she regarded him with a faintly inquisitive interest. (8)
• It was her first openly penitential utterance in his presence, and her cheeks were faintly reddened. (10)
• She tried him faintly with arguments in its favour; but his resolution was manifested by a deaf ear. (10)
• She tried him faintly with arguments in its favour; but his resolution was manifested by a deaf ear. (22)
• In the section of sky over the street twinkled two or three stars; shining faintly, feeling the moon. (10)
• Then, with the thought that she would, must still see him sometimes, all again grew faintly glamorous. (8)
• Since they went, the season faintly pulses and respires, so that one can just say that it is still alive. (9)
• Her figure swayed faintly, like the best kind of French figures; her dress, too, was a sort of French grey. (8)
• Her lips smiled faintly, tears stood in her eyes; then she drew her hand away and plunged into the traffic. (8)
• The door banged faintly, and in the great room rose the busy silence of those minutes which precede repasts. (8)
• Young Cecil Tharp had walked over with his dog, which could be heard whimpering faintly outside the front-door. (8)
• Lavender remained for a moment staring at him with their mouths open, while Blink growled faintly from underneath. (8)
• Cecilia reddened faintly, thinking of him who had taught her to listen, and of her previous contempt of the subject. (10)
• Renee motioned her hand as if it were free to be taken, and smiled faintly to make light of it, but did not give it. (10)
• She stretched herself to him faintly; she let it be seen that she did so as much as she had force to make it visible. (10)
• For an hour or more he did not speak, though once or twice he moaned, and faintly tightened his pressure on her fingers. (8)
• The housemaid faintly answered outside the door that she did, alarming him, for there seemed to be confusion somewhere. (10)
• And now, to add to the marvel, they heard a harp accompaniment, the strings being faintly touched, but with firm fingers. (10)
• She gazed at him in patient, faintly smiling bewilderment, as if it were something he would unriddle for her when he chose. (9)
• Hilary was looking at him; that faintly smiling glance, searching him through and through, suddenly made Stephen feel inferior. (8)
• Blackbirds were holding evensong; the late perfume of the lilac came stealing forth into air faintly smeeched with chimney smoke. (8)
• He followed her out into the Square, alive with faces faintly luminous in the darkness, and found her against the garden railings. (8)
• The scent of the blossom penetrated her nerves; in her heart, something faintly stirred, as a leaf turns over, as a wing flutters. (8)
• He had been correcting proofs to catch the post, and wore the look of a man abstracted, faintly contemptuous of other forms of life. (8)
• Now and then at these times he brought out a faded Italian anecdote, faintly smelling of civet, and threadbare in its ancient texture. (9)
• The expression was outside her experience, belonging as it were to a different world, with its faintly smiling, almost shining, gravity. (8)
• There under a clock-tower lay a fluffy brown-and-white dog, so old that he did not get up, but faintly waved the tail curled over his back. (8)
• Of the same height, but different appearance, their manner was faintly jocular, faintly supercilious, as if they tolerated everything. (8)
• Ashurst saw nothing but the brightened stream, the furze faintly gilded, the beech trees glistening, and behind them all the wide loom of the moonlit hill. (8)

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