Dint

//dɪnt//

"Dint" in a Sentence (16 examples)

By dint of long practice he became most skillful.

By dint of hard work he succeeded at last.

He gained the prize by dint of hard work.

He succeeded by dint of effort.

By dint of pushing the words back to the beginning of the sentence, there only remained the two of them at the end: Mary, Tom.

A few yards below the brow of the hill on which he paused a team of horses made its appearance, having reached the place by dint of half an hour's serpentine progress from the bottom of the immense declivity.

At last, by dint of cunning intrigues, he succeeded, one day, in finding himself in the presence of Marie Antoinette.

O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity

It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.

[D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt.

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His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid; / Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find / So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.

[A]nd read the naked shield, […] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it

Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]

Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.

Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.

And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!

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