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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dint.

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Examples

  • It collapsed, a dinted and dinged warrior, what I liked to think of as the fighter who met his end crushed by Goliath right before David was up.

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  • They pushed it out into the dim light¾an old army colored footlocker, dinted and scratched, with a large rusted padlock jammed through the steel ring.

    Amends '82: Part One 2010

  • He brought it out, barely dinted from its passage through flesh and bone, and dropped it aside in the grass.

    A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

  • Nothing Linus did could make her cry, nothing dinted her sunny disposition.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Nothing Linus did could make her cry, nothing dinted her sunny disposition.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • When Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California, highly plausible claims that he had made unwelcome advances towards a number of women scarcely dinted his election prospects.

    Sex Americana Gerard Baker 2009

  • Nothing Linus did could make her cry, nothing dinted her sunny disposition.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Nothing Linus did could make her cry, nothing dinted her sunny disposition.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Ye maun ken he had a way of bending his brows, that men saw the visible mark of a horseshoe in his forehead, deep dinted, as if it had been stamped there.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Nothing Linus did could make her cry, nothing dinted her sunny disposition.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

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