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Recent Examples of dimly
Darkness Looms Streetlights glow dimly near the entrance to the Havana Bay Tunnel, which connects Old Havana to Havana del Este, on March 7.
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Thomas E. Franklin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
The cavernous lobby is quiet and dimly lit.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 4 Mar. 2026
Remove the dying leaves and then the pot can be moved to a cool, dimly lit spot and just kept barely moist until the soil can be worked in the spring.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
But there’s nothing to dimly light up a room quite like Salieri’s gaslighting.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026
The space is dimly lit, with light grids above the bar and a custom projector creating an underwater effect.
—Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 25 Feb. 2026
The image that usually beckons of a vintage store is one that is fusty, cramped and dimly lit, filled with garments organized without design or backstory.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
The only light was that which dimly penetrated an opaque skylight overhead.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Located just around the corner from my apartment on the far-west frontier of Bed-Stuy—Franklin Avenue, just below Greene—this place is the dreamy, dimly-lit, casual café of my dreams.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Thomas E. Franklin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
The cavernous lobby is quiet and dimly lit.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 4 Mar. 2026
Remove the dying leaves and then the pot can be moved to a cool, dimly lit spot and just kept barely moist until the soil can be worked in the spring.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
But there’s nothing to dimly light up a room quite like Salieri’s gaslighting.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026
The space is dimly lit, with light grids above the bar and a custom projector creating an underwater effect.
—Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 25 Feb. 2026
The image that usually beckons of a vintage store is one that is fusty, cramped and dimly lit, filled with garments organized without design or backstory.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
The only light was that which dimly penetrated an opaque skylight overhead.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Located just around the corner from my apartment on the far-west frontier of Bed-Stuy—Franklin Avenue, just below Greene—this place is the dreamy, dimly-lit, casual café of my dreams.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimly
Adverb
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This is the year that the Bob Baker Marionettes — whose hipster cred and general renown increased when the theater moved to Highland Park from its longtime home tucked obscurely west of downtown — played Coachella.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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There’s a novella of a wine list, with by-the-glass options obscurely scrawled on a mirror above the bar.—
Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The protagonist is a darkly violent, possessive young man named Jacob Cullen, who works in a manor house.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
6 May 2026
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What begins as a simple mission becomes a darkly comic exploration of displacement, memory, and the meaning of home.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
Adverb
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As a result, unlike what his name would suggest, Unique is a fairly generic loner who dully seeks vengeance.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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For a dully cynical take on the OnlyFans economy, there’s Euphoria, but for a more affirming consideration, Margo is well worth the subscription.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The race there begins somberly in the museum before runners bound up one flight of stairs into a hallway that leads into the main stairwell; from there, the steps settle into continuous, shallow right turns providing a repetitive, hypnotic cadence.—
Michelle Sinclair Colman,
Curbed,
7 May 2026
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The music came back on, and the men danced somberly to wedding music.—
Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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In Time Regained, the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes’ mansion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Dimly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimly. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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