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[din] / dɪn /


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It was hard to hear above the din.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Yelling the movement's signature slogan, "The students are winning," to the din of drums and whistles, crowds streamed through the city to Slavija Square in the centre.

From Barron's May 23, 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

Though they sometimes escalate into larger-scale military drills, these maneuvers, which once dominated news headlines, quieted to a din as they became routine.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 15, 2026

He followed Mace and Nettle into the din and fumy stench of the first bar along the front.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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 Brontë

I The shadows sit and stand about its door Like uninvited guests and poor; And all the long, hot summer day The grating locust dins its roundelay In one old sycamore.

From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein

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

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

Ever since my Sunday School days I've had it dinned into my ears that I'm a Child of God, that I'm made in His Image.

From Time Magazine Archive

London whispers that Professor Moley, "The Isolationist," was coming to supersede Secretary Hull, "The Internationalist," dinned louder and louder until they beat like African war drums on the U. S. Delegation's sensitive 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

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

Haven't eaten in the dinning room in years, no need to spend that kind of money when the dishes in the tavern are so terrific.

From New York Times Aug. 16, 2016

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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