dimple
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"That is a pimple on a dimple on an ant's left cheek compared to what we need in the world," Banga said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023
Chances are, the photos will show the waves in his dark hair and the dimple that emerges when he smiles.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Multidirectional brushstrokes mold and dimple the paint, which is gritty with textures, arousing our sense of touch.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
What I did not expect was Strout’s disarming warble of a laugh, which filled the Friedrich Agency’s book-lined mews house on the Upper West Side and triggered a dimple on her right cheek.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2022
He’s trying not to laugh, but the telltale dimple gives it away.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
From the vantage point of our helicopter above the Alps, you can make out scars and dimples from recent avalanches.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
She was known to the public as the beauty with the blond hair, the face piercings, the dimples and tattoos all over her body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
In their 2017 study, the researchers mimicked some features of brochosomes, particularly the dimples and their distribution, using synthetic materials.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
Real glassware — my highball glass had dimples, which conveniently made it easier to grip in the dark — added a classy touch.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
I know Chin by her dimples and the jeans with the holes, Dad by his scraggle beard, Mom by her chapped ice-cream-store hands.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
Since Deutch’s first lead role in the undervalued 2014 “Twilight” piggybacker “Vampire Academy,” her screen presence has been 15-going-on-45: a dimpled ingenue with the confident patter of a Preston Sturges heroine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
During the campaign Mr. Mamdani was the warm, embracing fellow with the dimpled smile who loved everyone with an undifferentiated warmth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Mr. Close, soft-spoken and warm with a dimpled smile, was raised in Collyweston, with family roots that go back 400 years here.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2024
The atoms in the sheet are made of repeating units consisting of two tungsten atoms to every carbon atom, which are arranged metaphorically like the dimpled surface of an egg carton.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
Laila loved the moist kisses Zalmai planted on her cheeks, loved his dimpled elbows and stout litde toes.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Unlike many other breast cancers, she said symptoms could include itching, tingling, pulling sensations, dimpling or changes to the skin rather than a distinct lump.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
When he looked under a microscope, he saw small suckers dimpling the rock.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
After setting the bread in your pan and dimpling your dough, drizzle the infused olive oil on top before baking.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2021
In the bowels of the jet, technicians have to remove multiple specialty fasteners on both sides of the inner fuselage skin, then install newly produced “shims” that fill out gaps and remove the structural dimpling.
From Reuters ● Feb. 25, 2021
All around me heavy drops of fresh water plopped loudly and wastefully into the sea, dimpling its surface.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
