Close cling their ladders to the walls; these, fain / to clutch the doorposts, climb from floor to floor, / their right hands strive the battlements to gain, / their left with lifted shield the arrowy storm sustain.

The towel has a very faint spot of dust.

Her knees trembled, her heart fluttered, a horrible faintness came over her.

They were fainting.

I thought that for a second that Tom was going to faint.

Such was her delight that she fainted.

When she heard the bad news, she fainted.

I don't have the faintest idea what Tom is trying to do.

She fainted after seeing a tiger.

The conspiracy minded claim photos the astronauts took on the moon do not show any stars in the background. In reality, the cameras were unable to capture the faint light emitted by stars.