Sentence examples for dimly sensed from inspiring English sources

I was nothing more than an obstacle dimly sensed.

(It was now charging parallel to the beach, fleeing some dimly sensed fate).

Although I only dimly sensed it at the time, baseball in 1983 was well into a period of acute transformation.

(Virago, £7.99) It begins with morning, and news of war, and ends with a fictional Indian, out of place in the Canadian wilderness, dimly sensing the author who has called him into life.

Dimly I sensed that the way I was inhaling and exhaling was out of whack, and she confirmed it by giving me some tests.

As he worked on his palace the craving grew in him, and he seemed to sense dimly, just out of reach beyond his inner sight, a farther kingdom.

He said there were so many clichés that "we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion", whatever that means.

In a celebrated riff on "Casablanca," Umberto Eco wrote, "Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion".

Most of all, they can communicate, however dimly, a sense of direction and purpose to the wider electorate.

Here is the young boy's unaccountable ache, the dimly grasped sense of what is slipping forever into history.

Ursula carries within her a vague, dimly apprehended sense of other, semi-lived lives, inexpressible except as impetuous actions – such as when she pushes a housemaid down the stairs to save her from a more terrible ending.