Sentence examples for grew dim from inspiring English sources

With the newspaper strike public events grew dim but daily life took on a lost freshness.

The quickly changing skies began to cloud over, and our outlook grew dim.

As his imagination faltered and grew dim, the fending off of maturity became desperate, demented and pointless.

Once darkness had fallen, everything in the vagon grew dim, except at the front end, where a glow came from an open door.

And Staten Island disappeared into the shadows, and the light grew dim enough for you to fool yourself that the marble wasn't fake at all.

For the actual performance, company members changed from practice clothes into earth-tone costumes by Liz Prince, and the lighting grew dim in the 92nd Street Y's intimate Buttenwieser Hall.

There was a glint of anxiety in her rheumy eyes that grew dimmer as she seemed to fall into it.

Watched familiar pendulum dance of male hummingbird, reported that when he alighted his ruby throat seemed fairly ablaze but gradually grew dimmer until it seemed its ordinary red.

Its prospects grew dimmer after the special election in Massachusetts last week was won by Scott Brown, a Republican who repudiated the federal cap-and-trade proposal in his campaign.

Napoleon I's tyranny was being forgotten or glossed over as the memory of it grew dimmer, and instead his "glory," which contrasted so strikingly with the timidity and dullness of the bourgeois monarchy of Louis-Philippe, was lauded nostalgically.

He followed the river upstream through the flooded bowl of the foothills, swollen with April rain, sleeping in empty riverboats while the sun, pale in the blue mist of the river, grew dimmer.