Example Sentences
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As brands go through creative directors like tissues, the connection to what made a house beloved seems to get fainter and fainter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Most cell phones now use two GPS frequency bands -- one that is older and fainter, and a second that is newer and stronger.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
These instruments are essential for future missions that aim to directly image Earth-like planets around other stars, objects that can be ten billion times fainter than the stars they orbit.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
Astronomers routinely observe galaxies that are thousands of times fainter and more distant than galaxies observed in the 1920s.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025
It kept on saying Yahhhhh, Yahhhhh, Yaaahhhhhhhhh, getting fainter and fainter.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
