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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

Simply by dint of their tablet-like heft, dictionaries make a claim for longevity and authority.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

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

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

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

But I dint understand anything about it and I was thinking mabye after the operashun 111 be smart and 111 understand all the things hes talking about.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

And she took off her cap, turning it round on her hand, and looking at the dints in it with amusement.

From Helena by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Many had actually perforated the steel plates, 9/16th-inch thick, and there were deep dints innumerable.

From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by George Davidson

His boughs make music of the winter air, Jewelled with sleet, like some cathedral front 15Where clinging snow-flakes with quaint art repair The dints and furrows of time's envious brunt.

From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations by James Russell Lowell

I mount no longer when the trumpets call; My battle-harness idles on the wall, The spider's castle, camping-ground of dust, Not without dints, and all in front, I trust.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

Both those places had made permanent dints in his memory.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell

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

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

“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

By dint of dinting, I managed the trick.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

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

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

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

Half the stones of the borgo went after that cavalcade, and fell in a persistent shower upon them, rattling like giant hail upon their armour, dinting many a steel-cap to its wearer's sore discomfort.

From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini