Example Sentences

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He had told her that he had spent more than 30 hours at sea, and was "fainting" from exhaustion by the time he reached the waters off Taean, a county on South Korea's western coast.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

"Then I suffered with fatigue, my iron levels were going down so there was all that, and there was fainting so in general quite a nightmare to live with and quite debilitating."

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

And he was watching the Cubs game, and we thought he was fainting, but we quickly realized something very dire was happening and then screamed for help.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2022

And what about Leroy Smith, the black State Trooper who helped the KKK member with the Nazi T-shirt as he was fainting in the hot sun protesting the removal of the confederate flag?

From Time • Jul. 29, 2015

She was fainting, and had not the visitor involuntarily caught the little one from its mother’s hands, as she fell back in the corner of the sofa, it would have dropped upon the brick floor.

From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville