by dint of
Example Sentences
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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.
By dint of their social status and his achievements, the sisters intersected with a cavalcade of famous figures: Washington and his wife, Martha; Benjamin Franklin; the Marquis de Lafayette; Thomas Jefferson; James and Dolley Madison; the painter John Trumbull; and, fatefully, Aaron Burr.
By dint of pandemic pauses and far-flung locales around the U.K.’s Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the lineup managed to quietly ferment and realize some of that long-ago unknown magical mystery.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
Jack eventually befriends the upstart political populist Willie Stark, who, by dint of his will and eloquent diatribes against the wealthy establishment, is elected governor.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
