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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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

Yet by dint of personality alone, Son immediately lightened the mood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

In presenting many of his bills or ideas, he acted as if they should pass by dint of their sheer excellence—as if old-school politicking was unnecessary and even distasteful.

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2024

So if I dint get smart why are they paying me to rite these dumb things.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

"Farewell," said I. "Farewell," said she; and the dints in her cheeks were extreme: they were the only dints about her, everything else being so prim and gray and well-ordered, while these were—quite different.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

It is thy fancy's finger-tip That dints the dimple now, and kinks the lip That scarce may sing in all this glad increase Of merriment!

From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye

Both those places had made permanent dints in his memory.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell

No accent wounds the reverent air, No footprint dints the sod,— Lone in the light the prairie lies, Wrapt in a dream of God.

From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris

I mount no longer when the trumpets call; My battle-harness idles on the wall, The spider's castle, camping-ground of dust, Not without dints, and all in front, I trust.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

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

Not just old and ill fitting, but dinted, cracked, and brittle.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Tyrion helped him dress for the bout, in heavy breeches, padded doublet, and a dinted suit of old steel plate.

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’ll give it him when I can catch him! and if I serve not our Seth out for dinting in the blackjack last night, I’m a Dutch woman, and no mistake!

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

"No cheer," he answered, gloomily, dinting his finger-nails into his palm.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various

"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

He straightened himself as he spoke, and releasing the walking-stick with his left hand put the point of it softly, slowly, and strongly down upon the gravel, dinting the ground pretty deeply with the pressure.

From Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray