din
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It was hard to hear above the din.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
But it's not the din of a 1.6-litre V6 turbo hybrid engine which has caused the alarm.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
"I love this job, I fell in love with it the first time I came up here," she declares above the din of excavators working round the clock.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
Rising above the din of voices in the lobby of the J.W.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
“Does that sound like strength to you?” he asks, dropping his hand and letting Celia’s voice blend into the din of the crowd.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally.
From Time Magazine Archive
The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, if there is an insufferable companion under the sun, it is the average "well-informed person" who continually dins into your ears things you were born knowing.
From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
King had dragged me out of that dome of dins in the nick of time, and my head was recovering rapidly.
From Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy
The tunnel is filled with smoke, and a continuous reverberation dins our ears.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
I’ve been oppressed by all these facts and evidence that dinned against My simple claim that I am not more sinning than I’m sinned against.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
For 53 days the Voice, harsh, flat and earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial.
From Time Magazine Archive
A music strike, unlike a coal strike, caused little or no public suffering; in fact it hardly diluted the endless flow of recorded sound which dinned daily in the nation's ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
Precisely at this moment the unexploded Nazi bomb exploded and a shower of rubble dinned like hail on the roof of the Duke's car.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had been dinned into her these past few months, the thousand details of a new admission.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Guests enter through a private side door and they’re met with a somewhat full-sized kitchen and dinning room.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
In June, we dragged the tables outside and set up the planter boxes for outdoor dinning.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2020
The house had an unfinished quality, and chickens strutted through the dinning room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
My husband and I were married in the garden and had a reception in an upstairs dinning room in 1994.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
Three words, endlessly repeated, dinning themselves hour after hour into receptive brains.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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