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Anything Posehn says is funny by dint of his saying it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

"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

I tolld them I dint spill the ink on them and I coudnt see anything in the ink.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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

These are its dints; I have been watching them all the way along from the chalet!

From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen

Ah, Lucky, ye would na hae tholed the dirl o' the dints o' my hammer as she did.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt

"Human nature's much the same at the bottom, whether it has gold on the top of it or the dints of the hammer, and Mrs. Jimmy was good all through."

From Alton of Somasco by Harold Bindloss

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

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

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

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

The visitors were dinted and haggard and dusty, yet the standard they carried was the lion of Lannister, golden on its crimson field.

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

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

"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

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