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Recent Examples of dimly
The cavernous lobby is quiet and dimly lit.
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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
Ben smashes chests and heads in, tears jaws out, rips faces off, and director Johannes Roberts makes sure to include brief close-ups of the carnage, lit just dimly enough to avoid truly grossing us out.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
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
Ben smashes chests and heads in, tears jaws out, rips faces off, and director Johannes Roberts makes sure to include brief close-ups of the carnage, lit just dimly enough to avoid truly grossing us out.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimly
Adverb
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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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There’s a tremendous sweetness to the film and its central relationships, but the banter ping-pongs swiftly between the intimate and the darkly absurd.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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The book, animated by Barbara’s reflections, is a striking, darkly comic portrait of a mind narrowed by disappointment.—
Isle McElroy,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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If people in the old days really talked so slowly and dully, more would have died of boredom than of disease.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Joseph and his supporters were clad in green and white and marched somberly to the election council’s headquarters.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
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As a light dusting of snow fell over Minneapolis Sunday morning, community members lit candles, laid fresh flowers and stood somberly around a makeshift vigil at the site of Pretti’s death.—
Michael Biesecker,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Jan. 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 22 Mar. 2026.
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