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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of din.

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Examples

  • Both men stared around them in alarm as the blaring trumpet calls dinned loudly in the small chamber.

    Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

  • Both men stared around them in alarm as the blaring trumpet calls dinned loudly in the small chamber.

    Dragons of Spring Dawning Weis, Margaret 1985

  • She thought it a ghostly thing that the first voice she had heard on coming as from another world had been the voice of Pete, and the first name dinned into her ears had been Pete's name.

    The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

  • She constantly "dinned" in my head, how important it was to wash your hands after using the bathroom.

    Jamaica - Full Feed Margaret Bailey 2009

  • One event took place at a local cancer hospital, where guests dinned with patients on spring rolls and a Javanese tomato soup made from organic vegetables.

    Jakarta's Secretive Restaurant Scene Sara Schonhardt 2011

  • But the labor movement turned their backs on those black men when the white world dinned in their ears.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • The lesson had, as the north-country expression has it, been "dinned into" the heads of the two girls.

    The Devil's Bedpost 2010

  • It was what was always being dinned into you and me at school; it's what goes down best.

    Charles Dickens and Uriah Heep hradzka 2010

  • It's obvious that the past two elections have not yet dinned into the GOP's ears the fact that the electorate had repudiated its blinkered approach to taxes and spending and social issues.

    Jacob Heilbrunn: Gregg's Jilting of Obama Epitomizes the GOP's Collapse 2009

  • The rest she kissed both sides of the cheek as the chimes of the New Year dinned, one by one sent each through the door to dissolve in the rain and wind.

    The Boxes of Dr. Spasmodious Robert Hunter 2009

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