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How to use dimple in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun, verb

Dimple means a small depression or indentation in a surface. Example: “The accident created a dimple in the hood of the car.”

Examples of dimple by meaning

nounA small depression or indentation in a surface.

  • The accident created a dimple in the hood of the car.

nounA small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.

  • You have very cute dimples.

verbTo form a small indentation in (something).

  • The hailstorm dimpled the roof of our car.

verbTo form a dimple (noun sense 1.1) in one's face by smiling.

  • The young girl dimpled in glee as she was handed a cupcake.

More sentences with dimple

  • "But I wanted to pull you into my dimples whenever you touch them.2018, Venkatraman Nagarajan, Should I meet her?. From the entry palpebrate
  • She returned a toothly grin that displayed her deep, pretty dimples.2010, Robert Crudup, Malachi Moon: Journey of a Bluesman. From the entry toothly
  • Some people jokingly referred to it as a “butt chin.” Sheppard's dimpled chin wasn't at all unsightly.2007, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Sullivan's Evidence, page 334. From the entry butt chin
  • And I told him everything; his perfect teeth glistened, a dimple flattered his flawless butt-chin.2006, Carol Weston, Melanie in Manhattan, page 261. From the entry butt-chin
  • Or perhaps you’ve just been ignoring those pudgy, orange-peely dimples creeping down your thighs.2006, Cherry Maslen, Linda Bird, Cellulite Solutions: Tips and Techniques to Lose the Lumps (52 Brilliant Ideas), Perigee, published 2007…. From the entry orange-peely
  • Surely there once was one: a symbolic, navellike dimple in the dirt floor.2004, Reuben J. Ellis, Stories and Stone: Writing the Ancestral Pueblo Homeland, page 161. From the entry navellike
  • I think the Sore Loserman campaign has gone the way of the dimpled chad.2000 December 1, Moe Bulduc, “A matter of higher authority”, in Sun Journal. From the entry Sore Loserman
  • He had a chin on him, a butt-chin, with a dimple in it.1995, John Sandford, Night Prey. From the entry butt chin
  • Reduce and minimize the appearance of lumpy, dimpled, orange-peely skin conditions, commonly known as “cellulite.”1986 November, Orange Coast, volume 12, number 11, Costa Mesa, Calif.: O.C.N.L., →ISSN, page 32. From the entry orange-peely
  • “That sounds suspiciously like bigotry to me,” intervened Maitland, sweetening his impertinence with a dimpled smile.1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, published 1971, Part 2, p. 409. From the entry intervene
  • “I got that dimple from sleeping with my face on a collar button,” coldly explained the dentistress.1930 October 4, Joseph Faus, ““Oh, Miss Dentist!”: Being the ridiculous romance of Oliver Whidden, insurance salesman, who found his love…. From the entry collar button
  • Petite with curly blonde hair and a dimpled smile.2020, Ann H. Gabhart, An Appalachian Summer, Revell, →ISBN. From the entry gawky
  • I could totally lick ice cream from those dimples.2014, Karen Templeton, Santa's Playbook, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry le sigh
  • I'm referring to the fictional depictions, those dimple bottomed winged plumpies flying around with harps or bows and arrows.2010, Mary Mcreynolds, The Tapeworm Emails, page 56. From the entry plumpie
  • He smiled again, easily, dimples creasing his cheeks, and a tiny fanwork of lines crinkled the corners of his dark eyes.1999, Anne Marie Winston, Lovers' Reunion, Silhouette Books, published 1999, →ISBN. From the entry fanwork
  • Twin dimples of the crescentic type came down her tanned cheeks on the sides of her mournful mouth.1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 25. From the entry crescentic
  • The tetrahedral dimples and dihedral grooves of that solid are here replaced with deeper nonahedral cups and tetrahedral dimples.1971, Magnus J. Wenninger, “Non-convex polyhedra (67–109)”, in Polyhedron Models, Cambridge University Press, published 1988, →ISBN…. From the entry nonahedral
  • Now in the dimpled streamful ghyll, and now aloft Where leaden high rigg roads leap to a livid sky, Sour and solitary, royally will I.1919, The Cambridge Magazine - Volume 9, page 372. From the entry streamful
  • CELLULITE — the dimpled, uneven skin that mars the backsides and thighs of women everywhere — is a scourge to bikini-wearers and a squelcher of lights-on romps in bed.2009 June 25, Catherine Saint Louis, “Treating Cellulite? It’s Still There”, in New York Times. From the entry squelcher
  • Leona Brausen, whose own dimpled gams — “baby-er than ever” as she says — inspired the role, is back onstage Saturday to dance the dance for the last time.2007 August 2, Liz Nicholls, “Gala to mark Teatro’s entry into the quarter-century club”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page D3…. From the entry baby
  • With the subject standing erect but relaxed, a point is drawn with a skin marker at the spinal intersection of a line jointing the dimples of Venus (S1).2006, Gerard A. Malanga, Scott Nadler, Musculoskeletal Physical Examination: An Evidence-based Approach, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN…. From the entry dimple of Venus
  • In brief: a "pregnant" or "dimpled chad" was one bearing an indentation left by the voter but which had not become detached at any of its corners.2000 November 13, David Usborne, “The state of the Union rests on the state of Chad”, in The Independent. From the entry swinging-door chad
  • Breasts are rarely pert, self-sustaining, in these pictures; they droop and sag, veinously overabundant, from bodies marked by the dimples and creases and stretchmarks of time.1996, Anne Glyn-Jones, Holding Up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline. From the entry veinously
  • The beef trust was out in full force – these landladies were all shaped up like barrels, wherever there wasn't a crease in their meat there was a dimple.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2…. From the entry beef trust
  • She lifted her night-dress over her head and for a moment caught a glimpse of her nakedness in the tarnished looking-glass—plumply rounded thighs and knees, the dimple in her stomach.1986, William Trevor, “Kathleen's Field”, in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, published 1992, page 1254. From the entry plumply

Meaning of dimple

  1. noun A small depression or indentation in a surface.
  2. noun A small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.
  3. noun A small depression, made with a punch on a metal object, as a guide for further drilling.

Full definition of dimple

Questions about dimple in a sentence

How do you use dimple in a sentence?
Dimple is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The accident created a dimple in the hood of the car.”
What is a short sentence with dimple?
“You have very cute dimples.”
What does dimple mean?
Dimple means a small depression or indentation in a surface.

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