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“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

By dint of pandemic pauses and far-flung locales around the U.K.’s Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the lineup managed to quietly ferment and realize some of that long-ago unknown magical mystery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

By dint of geography and personalities, Brooklyn is now central to a contest former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a chief Mamdani opponent, portrayed in existential terms during a campaign stop there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

He can get them to do things by dint of their friendship—things that other presidents cannot.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

Mabye its because I dint try hard enuf or just some body put the evel eye on me.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Maxwell, removing his hat, straightened out the dints in it before he spoke a few words, and then, thrusting his way through the groups which opened up before him, halted beside the fallen man.

From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss

Your great-grandfather had set his heart upon my wearing the breastplate which still bore the dints of the Scottish spears at Dunbar, but on trying it on we found it was too small for me.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It must have done fearful things; there are little dints in it.

From Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany

She dints a little, and cries out when she's hurt, an' then she settles back again, smooth and comfortable as ever.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

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

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

From the looks of the grounds, tom and muddy and littered with bits of dinted armor and broken lances, they had been at it for a day or more, but now the end was near.

From "A Clash of Kings" 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

He straightened himself as he spoke, and releasing the walking-stick with his left hand put the point of it softly, slowly, and strongly down upon the gravel, dinting the ground pretty deeply with the pressure.

From Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray

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

It was when the baby was sleeping in her own bed, its combed head dinting one of her own white pillows, that she looked across to her deft, tactful maid.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon