Sentence examples similar to it grew dim from inspiring English sources

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.

They can react chemically with the gas inside the light bulb, making it grow dimmer.

Tiger Stadium is gone to dust now, memories of it growing dimmer every time Cabrera whacks another ball over the outfield wall at Comerica Park.

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.

Suddenly the lights grew dim and music filled the room.

And as I stared, the clamor from Shea Stadium that had been resonating in my ears grew dim.

In the months just after, when the command structure fractured and the mission grew dim, a night shift of juvenile, sadistic guards gave the words a new meaning.