a faint cry
Frequency: 6.58.1 per million words
A cry that is not loud and is difficult to hear.
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Examples (10)
- From deep within the collapsed mine, rescuers heard a faint cry.
- She heard a faint cry from the alley and found a box of abandoned puppies.
- In the silence of the night, a faint cry drifted from the distant hills.
- The baby, weak from fever, let out only a faint cry.
- He paused, thinking he had heard a faint cry for help over the roar of the wind.
- A faint cry was the only response to his call in the vast, empty desert.
- As she drifted off to sleep, what sounded like a faint cry startled her awake.
- The search party spread out after one of them reported hearing a faint cry.
- Through the thick fog, a faint cry reached the sailors on the ship.
- He replayed the audio recording, trying to isolate the faint cry in the background noise.