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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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

Mr. Harkins insists that he is “not really special,” but he can be said to speak for his fellow officers by dint of family history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

He can get them to do things by dint of their friendship—things that other presidents cannot.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

I said I dint care because I aint afraid of nothing.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Both those places had made permanent dints in his memory.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell

"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

Ah, Lucky, ye would na hae tholed the dirl o' the dints o' my hammer as she did.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt

I mount no longer when the trumpets call; My battle-harness idles on the wall, The spider's castle, camping-ground of dust, Not without dints, and all in front, I trust.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

A couple of men were ordered to the front with iron bars, and they began to batter the door heavily, but without any further effect than to chip off splinters and make dints.

From Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore by Gordon Browne

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

“Helms as well, if you’ll take them old and dinted and red with rust.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Not just old and ill fitting, but dinted, cracked, and brittle.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

By dint of dinting, I managed the trick.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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 Rafael Sabatini

It was when the baby was sleeping in her own bed, its combed head dinting one of her own white pillows, that she looked across to her deft, tactful maid.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon

And she held the chubby wrist out to Valeria, showing three little lines dinting the tender flesh.

From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres

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 M. (Madelaine) Irwin