Sentence examples for they were faint from inspiring English sources
They were faint - many people missed them altogether - and unexpected, and barely mentioned in the immediate post-mortems of the spectacle of the last total eclipse of the millennium.
Invading cells could still be detected readily after administration of 0.5 mg ICG i.p., but at 0.25 mg they were fainter.
Not that they are faint or faraway.
They are faint implications now, a hiatus disappearing against the light off the sea.
When there are flashes of satire they are faint and rose-tinted, fangs filed into photogenic stumps.
"The pawprints of many dogs are there," Coren writes, "but they are faint, and the winds of time erase them if they are not found and preserved".
Almost carved out of paint, they sometimes emerge as luminous and legible, but mostly they are faint and faraway, seeming more like ghostly figments or memories.
In 1610, using a telescope (a recent invention), Galileo revealed that the haze is made up of individual, barely visible stars; they are faint only because they are so distant.
If the Pleiades are bright in June, plant the potato crop soon; if they are faint and rise late, it's better to wait.
Astronomers likely have discovered so few type Iax supernovae only because they are faint, not because they are rare: The team estimates that for every 100 type Ia supernovae explosions that occur, there are about 31 type Iax supernovae.
