Dent

"Dent" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Stopgap measures won't make a dent in drug addiction.

They had a dent in the rear door.

Tom's car is easily recognizable since there is a big dent in the front bumper.

The dent is huge.

I saw a dent in my new car.

I remember that one time Erik, after finding out I had crashed into his car with my bike and left a sizable dent, kicked my ass.

The “dent,” or weak spot, in the magnetic field over South America, known to scientists as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), allows radiation to penetrate Earth’s surface.

Mary weeded for an hour and a half yesterday and barely made a dent.

The car has a dent.

NGOs hope to distribute millions of clean stoves around the world this year, according to Lacey, making a sizeable dent in the estimated 100 million cookstoves that are used globally.

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The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.

to make a dent

"Case Of You" (#67, 1980), a single on the Scotti Brothers label, was Frank's first chart dent.

The transitoriness perhaps makes viral content the most representative form of culture in the twenty-first century: an era of vast quantities, deep specificity, and breakneck speed, where few individual artifacts, artworks, or conventions leave a dent in society or bend the curve of history.

That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.

Andy Carroll's first goals since his £35m move to Liverpool put a dent in Manchester City's Champions League hopes as they were emphatically swept aside at Anfield.

Copper is soft and dents easily.

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