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Anything Posehn says is funny by dint of his saying it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

But amongst MPs in the other place next door, and outside the Houses of Parliament, the idea of continuing to allow aristocrats seats by dint of birth is anathema to many.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

“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

When he said go I tryed to go but I dint know where to go.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Your great-grandfather had set his heart upon my wearing the breastplate which still bore the dints of the Scottish spears at Dunbar, but on trying it on we found it was too small for me.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"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

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 Faris, John T. (John Thomson)

And she took off her cap, turning it round on her hand, and looking at the dints in it with amusement.

From Helena by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

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

The visitors were dinted and haggard and dusty, yet the standard they carried was the lion of Lannister, golden on its crimson field.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

He came, a weary man with dinted helm and cloven shield.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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 Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

I’m for ever and the day after plagued wi’ them, and I do wish those lads ’ud make theirselves a bit useful and catch ’em, instead o’ dinting in black jacks.

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

"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 Zangwill, Israel

Half the stones of the borgo went after that cavalcade, and fell in a persistent shower upon them, rattling like giant hail upon their armour, dinting many a steel-cap to its wearer's sore discomfort.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael