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[din] / dɪn /


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As the din of clanking metal dims, the smell of grease and exhaust lingers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 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

Across Silicon Valley, work is being remade as once mellow spaces become dens of din.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2026

"With these costs, I'm going to have to ask for more money from customers" for the ride, said Marcel, amid the habitual din of engines and horns blaring in the Kinshasa sunshine.

From Barron's Mar. 25, 2026

To anyone who met him, he appeared to be just another poor soul crushed by the din and filth of Chicago.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort.

From Time Magazine Archive

After quiet had been restored, the Society of Saint-vincent de Paul cordially thanked Jasmin through the mouth of their President; and presented him with a magnificent golden circlet, with this inscription: "La Caritat dins Bourdeau!"

From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles, Samuel

The tunnel is filled with smoke, and a continuous reverberation dins our ears.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders

Now, if there is an insufferable companion under the sun, it is the average "well-informed person" who continually dins into your ears things you were born knowing.

From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

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

Starting from that, Dr. Laing sees the schizophrenic as an individual who has had trouble fitting into the social concepts dinned into him from infancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when word of the disaster dinned back into the ears of Commander in Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, as he sat amid his battleships several-hundred useless miles to the northwest, the master planner could only groan.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the truck motors dinned on, the needles of the detecting instruments crept up from three parts to six to seven.*

From Time Magazine Archive

They had been dinned into her these past few months, the thousand details of a new admission.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Haven't eaten in the dinning room in years, no need to spend that kind of money when the dishes in the tavern are so terrific.

From New York Times Aug. 16, 2016

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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