Preposition: at

• sight: On the table is one of his inventions - a chicken which has been trained to faint at the sight of a fox.

Modifies a noun

• whiff: There is not even a faint whiff of fried potatoes.

• glimmer: There it is, a faint glimmer of hope.

• glow: The dwarf remained seeing the faint glow from torches onboard their prey long against the cold backdrop of night.

• praise: You know, that line about damning with faint praise?

• echo: The music is equally provocative with faint echoes of Genesis in the quiet of the opening passages.

• wisp: A faint white wisp, something very much like a small cloud, was drifting along the beach.

Modifying Another Word

• nearly: Really enjoyed the night - except for nearly fainting from the heat.

• almost: Chapter Five Truth will Tell Lucy's heart missed a beat and she almost fainted when she stepped into her room.

• too: White dwarfs are much too faint to be seen directly with the naked eye.

• extremely: In our Solar System the remaining dust scatters sunlight to create an extremely faint glow called the zodiacal light.

• very: The corona is very faint relative to the main body of the sun.

• however: Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age all left their mark, however faint, on the area.

Used with why or when

• when: She had problems with her nerves and then my son began to faint when he was working in the fields.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: They tend to lower the blood pressure, which can make people feel faint.

• grow: The image of shades is because these dead souls have grown faint through the absence of God's light in Hell.

• appear: Thus Jupiter appears faint whilst the Moon itself is slightly over exposed.

Preposition: of

• heart: However, the evening is not for the faint of heart.

• touch: With five minutes to go, Sozzo got the faintest of touches on a through-ball that went into the side-netting.

Preposition: with

• hunger: I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.