The scream that followed made all the preceding ones sound faint.

Because of this, engineers said, the instrument loses the ability to separate very close objects or to see very faint ones.

Surely the louder chord could not have hurt the dragon, if the fainter ones had not.

Yes, there are clues to back such a theory, faint ones.

The heavier ones might have been rats, the fainter ones beetles or spiders.

If there were premonitions in the 18th century of what was to come, they were fairly faint ones.

I have placed her in a draught; and already she shows some signs, though very faint ones, of ordinary unconsciousness.

The griffon's glow stood out strongly against the fainter ones of its captors.

Rock and toll The new estimate draws on observations of many more asteroids, particularly small faint ones, than were available in previous impact-risk estimates.

The lights were off except for a few faint indirect ones.