"dim" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a passage that compares the "dim roar of London" to the "bourdon note of an organ," Wilde inserts the word "distant" before "organ," adding a twinge of far-off religious dread.
- It was a far-off, dim roar at first, coming forward much too rapidly and from too high up.
- In the distance was the dim roar of race cars, the muted bark of a PA system.
- From all around them comes a dim roar, not of waves or wind, but of a million unchained human voices speaking in a confusion of tongues.
- Outside, the gun battle is just a dim roar.
- For both men, the people were a dim roar in the distance, and their attitude helps explain why most voters interviewed in exit polls said they disapproved of democracy as practiced here.
- I lost myself in the dangerous waterfront shacks full of gambling and brawling flatboatmen and lovely dark-skinned Caribbean women, wandering out again to glimpse the silent flash of lightning, hear the dim roar of the thunder, feel the silky warmth of the summer rain.
- The dim roar of London was like the burdon note of a distant organ.
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