dimly realize

Frequency: 6.07.1 per million words

to begin to understand something in an unclear way

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Examples (20)

  • I dimly realize now that I might have made a mistake.
  • She dimly realized that she was trembling.
  • As she woke from the anesthetic, she dimly realized she was not in her own bed.
  • He dimly realized the danger he was in.
  • He dimly realized that his constant jokes were actually hurting her feelings.
  • I dimly realized that something was wrong.
  • Only much later did she dimly realize the danger she had been in.
  • They dimly realized the implications of their decision.
  • Staring at the old photograph, I began to dimly realize how much things had changed.
  • She began to dimly realize the truth.
  • The character dimly realizes he is just a pawn in a much larger game.
  • The child dimly realized the sadness in his mother's eyes.
  • We were only dimly realizing the full implications of the new policy.
  • Even in his confusion, he dimly realized the importance of the message.
  • He dimly realized that he had heard the melody somewhere before, but couldn't place it.
  • We dimly realized her absence, though we couldn't pinpoint why.
  • Through the fog of his grief, he dimly realized that people were trying to help him.
  • He would dimly realize later how much that moment meant.
  • It was then that I dimly realized the conversation wasn't about me at all.
  • She dimly realized the vastness of the ocean stretching before her.