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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 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

In presenting many of his bills or ideas, he acted as if they should pass by dint of their sheer excellence—as if old-school politicking was unnecessary and even distasteful.

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2024

But America matters by dint of its economic and military strength, and its major role in many alliances.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024

And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

In that rocky mountain you will find three dales, one of which is very deep, those are the dints made by your hammer.

From Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian by Various

No accent wounds the reverent air,— No footprint dints the sod,— Low in the light the prairie lies Rapt in a dream of God.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

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

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

The dints in her face looked very comely as she answered, "I shall, friend Biddle."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

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

Even worse, both doors were plainly dinted by something inside trying to get out.

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

He came, a weary man with dinted helm and cloven shield.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

By dint of dinting, I managed the trick.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

"How hot your face is," he said, dinting the flesh fondly with his finger, "I see my little girl is glad to have me back."

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill

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

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