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How to use the word fainted in a Sentence?

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With that, I snatched the cover off him, and saw a horror that will never leave my mind, i fainted at the shock of my child's mutilated body.

Anthony Carter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was really scary because I didn ยด t know what would happen to us, we didn't know if we were going to get robbed, the cold was terrible, my head hurt, and because of the altitude, I felt as if my ears were going to explode. I almost fainted.

Latin American

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I nearly fainted because I killed somebody that I didnt even know. I gave consent.

Shirell Powell

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

At about 9.45 p.m., we went to take the elevator down, but hotel security stopped us saying there was a gang war on the ground floor. We were all quite anxious about what was going on but soon found out through the TV that it was a terror attack, a few people were calm, some had fainted or were in a state of shock under the tables. The bomb blast, the sound of gunfire and the fire engulfing the area was so shocking. All of us were in a different states of mind. I was extremely worried about my mother, my two daughters and my wife, they were all crying.

Managing Director of Pegasus Shipping

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When I saw my father, I almost fainted. It looked like he was in a concentration camp.

George Dobrick

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I remember just screaming and scraping my body, and my skin was literally falling on the floor, i remember my mom telling me that I fainted. She thought I was gone.

Shalom Blac

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Entire families were killed. we started choking, felt dizzy, then fainted. Mazin was trying to wake up his grandfather.

Aisha Al-Tilawi

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We started choking, felt dizzy, then fainted. Mazin was trying to wake up his grandfather.

Aisha Al-Tilawi

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

KAY ARTHUR

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

For the first time since the start of the bombing the windows of my house smashed, my children are terrified and one of my relatives fainted because of the force of the blast.

Resident Adel Mansour

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I almost fainted. My life was ruined -- all my hard work went down the drain.

Steffon Josey-Davis

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.

Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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