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• The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.From the entry meet
• Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess.From the entry fine
• It looked suspiciously like a molding-compound repair of a dent.From the entry suspiciously
• A lion rampant sable, langued and dented gules.From the entry dented
• A dented metal punching bag waiting to be clanged; a solitary object in the rhino's cage.2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck. From the entry clang
• Steve Jobs once remarked: “We’re here to put a dent in the universe.2019 September 18, Chunka Mui, “How Will You Put A Dent In The Universe? Here’s My Plan.”, in Forbes. From the entry put a dent in the universe
• Even Fox News couldn't seem to make a dent in Trumpmania.2015, McKay Coppins, The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House. From the entry Trumpmania
• Skew is the contour, or the unevenness, in a distribution, the dent in the bell curve.2013, Larry Shover, “Volatility Skew: Smile or Smirk?”, in Trading Options in Turbulent Markets: Master Uncertainty through Active…. From the entry skew
• He would rather put a dent in his bankroll than fall down on anything he started.2013, Robert K. DeArment, Gunfighter in Gotham: Bat Masterson's New York City Years, →ISBN, page xxxvi. From the entry fall down on
• The thing's flesh jarred like teak, almost denting the Justicar's blade.2013, Paul Kidd, White Plume Mountain, →ISBN. From the entry justicar
• If a car or a can had many dents in it, we would say it is denty.2008, Alan Walker, Multiplication in a Flash, page 70. From the entry denty
• I am breathing the breath of a man with an oatflake on the dent of his lip.2007, Richard Price, “Tube Shelter Perspective”, in Greenfields, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry oatflake
• They include red flints and semiflints, red dents, purple, mixed yellow and white, and variegated colors.2005, James C McCann, Maize and Grace, page 84. From the entry semiflint
• The ligature dents on Larry's neck swelled red in the unvisored sun.2000, Stephen Graham Jones, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, →ISBN, page 224. From the entry unvisored
• Also, I thought that leaving Tez penguinless might put a dent in his demented carryings-on.1989, Pilliard Dickle, “The Palace Calendar”, in The Calendar World of Pilliard Dickle: A Collection of Unique Poster Calendars, Good for…. From the entry carrying-on
• She was a terrible stu­dent, impulsive, hyperac­tive, completely absent-minded and a troublemaker.1976 June 10, Victoria Graham, “Slow learners present new kind of problem”, in Progress Bulletin, volume 92, number 132, Pomona, Calif.…. From the entry would lose one's head if it weren't attached
• “The right hon. gentleman” squinked his eyes until his monocle dented cheek and forehead bones.1944, Jack Jones, The Man David: An Imaginative Presentation, Based on Fact, of the Life of David LLoyd George from 1880 to 1914, page 99. From the entry squink
• If an actor doesn't have a point of view, he doesn't make a dent.1938 December 18, Bosley Crowther, quoting John Garfield, “A man who means to make a dent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry make a dent
• Comstock’s dented black Harley-Davidson was parked amid a bevy of bicycles that looked like cowering fawns beside it.2022, Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Corsair, page 164. From the entry Harley-Davidson
• I urge you to put a dent in the universe through the impact you create in your respective professions,” she continued.2021 May 8, Melody Dixon, “Graduates strut the stage in 69th Commencement Ceremony”, in Coahoma Community College. From the entry put a dent in the universe
• In their escape, the culprits dented the wing mirror of a mobility car used to transport youngest daughter Klara, seven.2020 August 3, Jemma Carr, “Don't mess with Macey! Hero Staffordshire bull terrier chases off four machete-wielding burglars after gang…. From the entry Klara
• Come down here and make a dent in the universe.2011, Walter Isaacson, quoting Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry make a dent
• "You're acquitted, and I'm sorry about the new dent."2009, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 1457: His First Instinct Upon Waking. From the entry acquit
• The nondegerming system grinds corn, preferably white dent corn, into meal with little, if any, separation of germ.2000, Karel Kulp, Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology, Revised and Expanded, page 48. From the entry preferably
• The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning.2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager…. From the entry ratty
• Free of dents and scrapes so far, any wrong move or salah agar-ation will mar the car’s flawless paintwork.2000 December 28, Samuel Lee, “Life! This Weekend”, in The Straits Times, Singapore, page 6. From the entry agaration
• Neither possesses a serve fast enough to dent a radar gun and their stabby backhands resemble karate chops.1991 September 18, “Walker, Holton Are A Winning Duo”, in South Florida Sun-Sentinel. From the entry stabby
• Your vulgarian friend is downstairs, denting innocent people's fenders.1986, Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Joan (Elizabeth Perkins). From the entry vulgarian
• In what way should we incorporate this material in our flint x dent programme of the early maturity groups?1960, Proceedings of the […] Meeting, Montpellier: European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, Maize and Sorghum Section, →ISSN…. From the entry popmaize
• They spent about an hour playing good-cop bad-cop and making a dent in my supply of dark French Roast from The Castro Bean (Tango 87).2000, Meredith Ahner Wood, Re/sisters in Crime: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Novels. From the entry good-cop bad-cop
• But I am not yet persuaded that Clintonomics will make much of a dent in the persistent problems of unemployment in the U.S. economy.1992 December 6, David M. Gordon, “Clinton May Fall Short on Easing Unemployment”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 30…. From the entry Clintonomics
• Before we began our weekend shapeup, the car looked like this: scratches and dents, broken trim, and a finish that was strictly dullsville.1979, Bodywork & Painting, page 15. From the entry dullsville
• Odd that her head, so small now with the scratty cap of hair, was still heavy enough to dent the pillow down.1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 87. From the entry scratty
• We were making a joke about him not tearing it up; because the first person that puts a dent in it is going to get in trouble.2012, Scotty Rae Hettinger, 5/22: Stories of Survival, Stories of Faith, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry tear up
• “I've terrible serious doubts as to whether eight paltry legions would do more than angrify the barbarians whilst making only a smallish dent in the whole of germanorum.”2011, William Walling, Arminius. From the entry angrify

Meaning of dent

1. noun A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
2. noun A minor effect made upon something.
3. noun A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.

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Questions about dent in a sentence

How do you use dent in a sentence?

Dent is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.”

What is a short sentence with dent?

“to make a dent”

What does dent mean?

Dent means a shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.