Sentence examples for they dim from inspiring English sources

Both raise the prices at night, when they dim the lights, blast the music, bring in waiters and push the alcohol.

"When they dim down the lights and it feels pretty deserted, it's not a place you want to be because there's not much happening," said Humes.

Mr. Berlusconi said he had been forced to act on advice from Margaret Thatcher, a former British prime minister, and ignore negative articles about him, lest they dim his enthusiasm for the big challenges he had given himself.

They dim again when she learns that he's saddled with a wife and two children, and the glow that suffuses Irina has faded by the second of the play's four acts, when she has taken up work at the telegraph office and discovered that humble labor is no more fulfilling than her previous, idle existence.

That means that a street lantern can switch on and off depending on how busy the street is: if nobody is there, they dim, but as soon as a car, bike or pedestrian approaches, they turn themselves on and accompany the vehicle or person on his way.

They dim the upper level of light and project beams low and far to the side.

They dimmed the lights.

Then they dimmed the lights.

They dimmed the lights and lit candles.

But they dimmed after Mr. Romney started winning across the Rust Belt, with victories in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois.

They dimmed the lights and watched a thirty-second TV spot (lots of bedroom shots).