Sentence examples for barely illuminated from inspiring English sources

The moon was a sinister hangnail that barely illuminated your path along those slick pebbles.

The lights on my 1977 Volkswagen Westfalia camper van were so dim they barely illuminated the exit signs.

Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Cooper are present throughout, situated at corners of the black rectangular theater like anchors, often barely illuminated by Joe Levasseur's spare, low lighting.

At 3 37 a.m., according to the security video, the bicyclist, barely illuminated by the marquee lights and neon signs of Broadway, pedaled up to the station, between 43rd and 44th Streets, reaching the door at 3 38.

Sitting around a table at Radio, a bar in Oakland barely illuminated by red Japanese lanterns and a string of red lights, the band members clearly enjoy one another's company and jokes.

However, barely illuminated by a spotlight, it's somehow now even more remarkable that the frontman - who resembles a deranged businessman about to ransack the golf course - became an international rock star.

Picking his way through the detritus of his dark flat, he turns on a lamp, but its slight glow barely illuminates the high-ceilinged space.

On the other side of the highway, past a spotty string of businesses, the sun was barely illuminating the western horizon, most of it part of the 860,010-acre Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

"The miners had a saying: 'If the timbers start talking, we start walking,' " Joe Burke said, turning his head so that the thin beam from the lamp on his miner's helmet poked into the gloom, barely illuminating the stout wood columns that seemed to hold up the roof.

If there's a thematic connection to draw, it's that at night the dining room, in the swanky new Freehand Hotel, is as dark and exciting as an aquarium, with romantic lighting just barely illuminating the dramatic Arts and Crafts-inspired décor by the design firm Roman & Williams, heavy on custom woodwork, oceanic-blue tiles, and warm metals.

At the Fillmore he and a five-member band — including Veronika Coassolo, who sang lead vocals for most songs, with Tricky growling an octave below — had lights moving through a haze over their heads, barely illuminating themselves, the better to plunge listeners into the songs.