Sentence examples for Fainted from inspiring English sources

The word "fainted" is a correct and commonly used word in written English
It means to suddenly lose consciousness, typically due to a lack of oxygen to the brain. Example: The girl fainted from heat exhaustion after standing in the sun for too long.

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Fainted

verb

Past of faint

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We chat with the others and collect tales of how everyone is getting on: someone claims to have seen a porcupine; another has fallen and broken their arm; a murder squad policeman has fainted at the sight of a bloodied blister.

Crump told the Guardian that Zambrano-Montes's mother, 60-year-old Agapita Montes-Rivera, who has travelled from Mexico following the shooting, fainted when she saw her son's body for the first time on Monday afternoon.

Amnesty found that detainees on Manus Island "have fainted from heat stroke because they are forced to queue for hours in the sun for food".

Many of my workmates have fainted in the fields.

Brooke Graham, a reporter for the American station KUTV, fainted on air in January during a live interview about cross-country skiing in Utah.

I've fainted.

Only when the infirm Abu Ahmad himself fainted in front of the border guards did they let him through, citing an exception for medical emergencies.Abu Ahmad is one of the lucky ones.

Mr Bush fainted and collapsed but later resumed a tour of the country with no apparent ill effects apart from a large bruise on his cheek.Zone of uncertaintyColombia's peace process limped on.

One night, after eating his usual austere supper, with his sisters, of chicken broth, white rice, salad and milk pudding, the President fainted when he stood up to go to bed.

The final panel shows a 14-year-old Marjane boarding a plane, looking back to see her mother fainted in her father's arms".Persepolis 2" begins in Vienna, with Marjane wading through an awkward adolescence, confronting the typical trials of a thoughtful outsider.

The ghost of Abraham Lincoln so frightened a Dutch queen that she fainted.

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