din
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Everyone knew their fellow New Yorkers needed a bit of a break, and for a short period, the usual din of the city calmed to a whisper.
From Slate β Sep. 11, 2026
Amid the din of his frenetic business career, there’s a constant in Kushner’s life that he cites for keeping him grounded.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 30, 2026
"It's better than anything else... There aren't many jobs in Kabul," said the 21-year-old, above the din of diggers.
From Barron's β Aug. 9, 2026
As the din of clanking metal dims, the smell of grease and exhaust lingers.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 21, 2026
“Excuse me, Miss Bowen,” a voice calls to her, lifted over the din of the rain and carried down the street.
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
The ravening kite so swoops and plunders, when Hovering above the shelterd yard, she spies A helpless chicken near unwatchful hen, Who vainly dins the thief with after cries.
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
‘There’s nobbut t’ missis; and shoo’ll not oppen ’t an ye mak’ yer flaysome dins till neeght.’
From Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontΓ«
Even a man whose career has been ruined by malicious persecution will be avoided like a pest if it is known that he dins the account of his wrongs into everyone's ears.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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 β Jul. 7, 2021
A tormenting question dinned last week in the brain of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss: "Where will my wife and the children be safe?"
From Time Magazine Archive
And when word of the disaster dinned back into the ears of Commander in Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, as he sat amid his battleships several-hundred useless miles to the northwest, the master planner could only groan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miller happens to be Chief of Police in a small Connecticut town but speedily gets out of his depth when murder is dinned into his ears.
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
The courtyard features al fresco dinning and fireplaces, as well as sweeping westerly views that capture sunsets and city lights.
From Seattle Times β Jul. 9, 2021
In June, we dragged the tables outside and set up the planter boxes for outdoor dinning.
From Slate β Sep. 17, 2020
The house had an unfinished quality, and chickens strutted through the dinning room.
From Los Angeles Times β 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 β Feb. 2, 2018
The juke box was dinning and it was like looking into the depths of a murky cave.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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