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"One year I paid off £4,300, but the interest was £3,600," he says, "so in reality the only dint I made in that was £700."

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

“Home Alone” certainly made Culkin a star, which was its intention, and O’Hara, by dint of John Hughes’ characterization, an able partner.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026

Mr. Harkins insists that he is “not really special,” but he can be said to speak for his fellow officers by dint of family history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Yet by dint of personality alone, Son immediately lightened the mood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

I dint think pepul would laff at Prof Nemur because hes a sientist in a collidge but Bert said no sientist is a grate man to his colleegs and his gradulate studints.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it.

From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Fixed Bench in the Hall, Crowhurst Place, Surrey There still remain in many old houses collections of armour that bears the dints of many fights.

From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

There was nothing wrong with it except, if one looked closely, a few scratches or dints on its white stone walls, or a neatly drilled hole under a flight of steps.

From France at War On the Frontier of Civilization by Rudyard Kipling

I burst out, for the familiar labels, ay, the very dints in the brass lock, carried only sour memories to me, now.

From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by J. Scott (John Scott) Williams

Mr. George Meredith in his gorgeous lyrics strikes the nail too often and too hard, until he dints the panelling.

From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

A survey conducted at the end of 2018 by Spotted, a data and research provider focused on the celebrity endorsement space, suggested that the furore had barely dinted Hart’s appeal.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2019

They are dinted and angled to reflect the movement of the sky rather than the city below, enhancing light internally.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2014

Oliver, now 34, was born in Birmingham and five years in New York haven't dinted his Brummie burr.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2011

“Helms as well, if you’ll take them old and dinted and red with rust.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Tyrion helped him dress for the bout, in heavy breeches, padded doublet, and a dinted suit of old steel plate.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

By dint of dinting, I managed the trick.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

"No cheer," he answered, gloomily, dinting his finger-nails into his palm.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various

I’m for ever and the day after plagued wi’ them, and I do wish those lads ’ud make theirselves a bit useful and catch ’em, instead o’ dinting in black jacks.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

And she held the chubby wrist out to Valeria, showing three little lines dinting the tender flesh.

From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres

Wet and bright the dinting pebbles Shine where oft she paused and stood; All her dreamy warmth revolving, While the chilly waters wooed.

From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith