How to Use dint in a Sentence

dint

noun

• There was a hole in the ceiling and a dint on a red car.
  — Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2018
• Alice, by dint of her sharp tongue and her Rooney-ness, holds the reins most firmly.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• Donna and John Keen survived the flood by dint of good luck and the whims of rushing water.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• Whether by luck or dint of his outsize persona, the cards always seem to go Donald Trump’s way.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• By dint of prudence and a few passes at the dog races, Mrs. Harris just might raise the dosh for a junket across the Channel and a shopping spree.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
• Channing and whoever dint do nothing for me but THIS?!?!?
  — refinery29.com, 3 May 2018
• By dint of these factors, blood cancers have long served as a proving ground for new cancer treatments.
  — Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
• By dint of its longevity and evolving ensemble cast, Saturday Night Live doesn’t stay the same for very long.
  — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2022
• Combs are a little more forgiving, by dint of their design and the materials out of which they're made.
  — Jolie Kerr, Esquire, 28 Apr. 2017
• That brought the tally over two legs to 3-3, giving Spurs passage to the final round by dint of the team’s superior away goals tally.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• By dint of having principles at all, DWeb became a smaller tent than Web3.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2022
• The bad news is there's a chance that Warren, who is in the top tier of contenders, and Klobuchar, who is eager to stand out, could eviscerate him by dint of comparison.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 26 June 2019
• This cycle is also historic by dint of Ohtani being the first Japanese player to record one.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 13 June 2019
• What do the thousand nine hundred and ninety-six other students think about their four peers becoming the first-among-equals by dint of being filmed?
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
• Unfortunately, lots and lots of Trump backers will believe this stuff solely by dint of the fact that Trump tweeted it.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
• In other words, the global wealth creation system has tipped in favor of those who achieve it by dint of their own efforts within their lifetimes.
  — Justin Doebele, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• In George Lucas’s universe, Novogratz would presumably play the role of resident Yoda by dint of age and stature.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
• But the thought that Steyer may have juked his way to second place in some of the polls, solely by dint of having the money to maximize attention, should be sobering.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2020
• But along the way the limits of human endurance were redefined and the world became smaller by dint of human endeavor.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2019
• London Breed is the acting mayor, by dint of her role as president of the Board of Supervisors, the city’s governing body.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• That said, the undisputed king of returning movie warriors has to be Harrison Ford, by dint of his starring in the two franchises that started the ball rolling in the first place.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• Men usually hold the levers of power by dint of the self-righteousness that is expected from their gender, but women can master the game as well.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
• To the east lies the city park of Runyon Canyon, where the beautiful people get more beautiful by dint of strenuous hiking and dog-walking.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• But, by opening their economy to the world, and by dint of their people’s hard work, Chinese leaders have lifted hundreds of millions from poverty.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2019
• Everything is so loud and so bold as to be unmissable, except by dint of being overwhelmed by everything else.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
• To me, Premium is the only rung worth talking about since the others, by dint of including fewer services, aren’t really worthy of the term One.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
• By dint of hard work and proximity to the White House decision-making process, his power would come to surpass that of most cabinet members.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• By dint of sheer numbers, 870s have undoubtedly broken more targets than any other trap gun.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 5 May 2020
• When Trump was in office, by simple dint of habit everything became a partisan issue.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
• This is a crime procedural from the inside out, the inside being the life and career of a brash London barrister, a working-class woman from England’s North, who’s reached the top of her profession by dint of her work ethic and her wits.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024