| The lights dimmed when the chimes started, and all we could see was the glint of the mirrorball spinning slowly high above our heads. |
| The author is himself a sixth generation Scot with a Highland background that has not been dimmed by 200 years of separation from his homeland. |
| A maze of sterile-looking, particle-board cubicles had been erected in the room and the lights dimmed to a sepulchral twilight. |
| Exhibits are dimmed whilst fantastically big projections of rarely seen war photographs cover the jarring, angular interior walls. |
| Sometimes at the close of day, when the lights have been dimmed, I sit in the stillness. |
| I heard the doors close and saw little in the dimmed light, but I heard an engine starting and wheels moving along the ground. |
