The phrase "a dim apartment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an apartment that has low lighting or a gloomy atmosphere.
Example: "After a long day at work, I returned to my dim apartment, where the shadows seemed to linger in every corner."
Alternatives: "a dark apartment" or "a poorly lit apartment."
The four of them live in Forest Hills, Queens, where for 22 years they have rented the same dim apartment on a leafy street with birdbaths and lawn jockeys.
The sight of one of my souvenirs as it lies in the clutter of my dim apartment in Queens will rouse a bright exotic recollection, set off a selective Proustian flare.
(A recent tour of the shop was granted on the condition that its location, in a dim 1970s-flavored apartment building, not be revealed; its owner's true identity, however, has been an open secret for months — Fulton Ryder is a nom de plume of the artist and prominent book collector Richard Prince).
If you've ever stumbled back late at night to your dim apartment, where you tripped over a houseplant as you groped for the light switch, bluegill sunfish feel your pain.
Sitting in their grandmother's dim apartment in Spanish Harlem with illustrated Bibles cracked open on their laps, they imagine Eve offering the apple to Adam, and Jesus walking on water.
They lived with their parents, wives and children in a dim, two-story apartment in the concrete jumble of Barrackpore, a district of northern Kolkata.
"The Debt," John Madden's remake of a 2007 Israeli thriller, shuttles back and forth between a dim, creaky East Berlin apartment in 1965 and the sunshine of elite Tel Aviv a little more than 30 years later.
"It is impossible to win at the elections, because there are no elections," Milinkevich told me the first time I met him in a dim, three-room apartment in Minsk in October.
