din
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Everyone knew their fellow New Yorkers needed a bit of a break, and for a short period, the usual din of the city calmed to a whisper.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
The unending din inside Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong stadiums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
But it's not the din of a 1.6-litre V6 turbo hybrid engine which has caused the alarm.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Wearing helmets and ponchos, the protesters, many of whom waved rainbow-colored Indigenous flags, marched toward the city center to the din of firecrackers.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
“Go ahead,” he says to Tsukiko, shouting over the growing din of the rain.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I The shadows sit and stand about its door Like uninvited guests and poor; And all the long, hot summer day The grating locust dins its roundelay In one old sycamore.
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
The tunnel is filled with smoke, and a continuous reverberation dins our ears.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
The ravening kite so swoops and plunders, when Hovering above the shelterd yard, she spies A helpless chicken near unwatchful hen, Who vainly dins the thief with after cries.
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
I’ve been oppressed by all these facts and evidence that dinned against My simple claim that I am not more sinning than I’m sinned against.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
Precisely at this moment the unexploded Nazi bomb exploded and a shower of rubble dinned like hail on the roof of the Duke's car.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For 53 days the Voice, harsh, flat and earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"From spring on, leading indicators dinned their dismal story, and as a result business worried most of the year."
From Time Magazine Archive
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They had been dinned into her these past few months, the thousand details of a new admission.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The courtyard features al fresco dinning and fireplaces, as well as sweeping westerly views that capture sunsets and city lights.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2021
In June, we dragged the tables outside and set up the planter boxes for outdoor dinning.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2020
The house had an unfinished quality, and chickens strutted through the dinning room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
My husband and I were married in the garden and had a reception in an upstairs dinning room in 1994.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
And then a great thudding and bumping, like huge rams dinning on the ground.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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