How to use "faint" in a sentence
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Marius,' she said at last, a faint light in her sad eyes, 'you seem upset
Cosette felt suddenly faint, but she did not move or make a sound.
I wear a cheap hat, my jacket has lost half its buttons and there are holes in my boots.' He turned away from her and stood with his face pressed to the trunk of a tree, almost ready to faint
He walked blindly downwards in this way for a long time, his clothes wet with the blood from Marius's wound, the faint whisper of the young man's breath in his ear
His feet slipped all the time in the water on the ground, and he felt sick and faint with the terrible, airless smell
'Will someone take my wife outside? She is going to faint.'
The olive trees and lacy melaleucas stirred lazily in a faint Mojave breeze.
Beneath his cordial, witty, slightly cool exterior, his secret response was that of a healthy male animal, and her awareness of it was more instinctual than intellectual, like a mare's response to the stallion's first faint stirrings of desire.
There was no heartbeat whatsoever, not even a faint lub-dub.
I thought I was going to faint
I climbed into the pit and thought I heard a faint movement under my feet
Then he disappeared, and I thought I heard a faint scream
At the same time we could hear a faint sound, which changed into a long, loud humming noise
Then I saw the four of them carrying the remains of the fallen one between them, now clear and then later faint through a curtain of smoke, moving away from me across a great space of river and fields
Then, through the noise of the machinery, came the faint sound of human voices.
Then I heard a faint metallic sound as the tentacle moved back across the kitchen floor
She gave a faint cry.
Seven months ago, when these planets were close together, faint, dark marks appeared on photographs which suggested that a cylinder had been fired from one to the other.