Example Sentences

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From the vantage point of our helicopter above the Alps, you can make out scars and dimples from recent avalanches.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

As tension is applied across the elastic nanosheet in one direction, it expands out in the other dimension as the dimples flatten.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

She was known to the public as the beauty with the blond hair, the face piercings, the dimples and tattoos all over her body.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

But in bottlenose dolphins, soon after birth, they lose their whiskers, which leaves behind dimples known as vibrissal crypts.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2023

Walowick, a Polish lad with dimples who looked like he had more teeth than he needed, looked up from his magazine, flashed a smile, and went back to reading.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers