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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

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

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 ● Nov. 20, 2025

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

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

So I told him I dint think I was goin to get smart anyway.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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

More than once, when these mansions were not far from the road, we were able to perceive the unrepaired dints and fractures on the walls received during the stormy period of the civil troubles.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I am told that at Calais they made dints in the wall that a man might put his head into.

From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

His boughs make music of the winter air, Jewelled with sleet, like some cathedral front 15Where clinging snow-flakes with quaint art repair The dints and furrows of time's envious brunt.

From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations by James Russell Lowell

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

“Helms as well, if you’ll take them old and dinted and red with rust.”

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

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

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

From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres