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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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

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

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

I dint no it was going to be like a show.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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 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

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

From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris

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

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

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

The southron knights rode out in plate and mail, dinted and scarred by the battles they had fought, but still bright enough to glitter when they caught the rising sun.

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

Not just old and ill fitting, but dinted, cracked, and brittle.

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

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

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

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

From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres

"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