Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinged
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Authorities said Casey’s phone was pinged and later showed a remote spot between Thunder mountain trail and Nugget Creek trail, which prompted rescue teams to respond to the area of the ping.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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From her office at Aish, a Jewish educational institute with headquarters next to the Western Wall plaza, Geller can see where shrapnel dented and smashed rooftops, roads and a parking lot in the area.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Two dented blue bottles of Cuajo Titanium, a liquid coagulating enzyme used to curdle milk, remained on a wooden table, caked in mud.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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Pack was later plunked in the back while taking second base during a rundown.—
Danny Davis,
Austin American Statesman,
13 Mar. 2026
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He was plunked 204 times over his 16-year career, ninth most in the history of the sport.—
Tom Dougherty,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Some companies have discovered their innocent shenanigans failed to delight audiences and instead tarnished their brands.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
1 Apr. 2026
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Newspaper reporting and books over the last 20 years had already tarnished the halo some affixed to Chávez after his death, Garcia said.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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For centuries, armies usually clashed on battlefields, far from civilians.—
Gil Troy,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Reirson, the Western State College of Law professor, said the nation’s founding ideals of pluralism and equal opportunity have often clashed with an undercurrent of nativism and white supremacy.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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The bells that dangled off her red tunic jingled.—
Caitlin McGlade,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Mar. 2026
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Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
31 Dec. 2025
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Our buckteeth clinked painfully.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Glasses clinked; and at the center of it all was her very first ESSENCE cover, in October 2017.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
4 Aug. 2025
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The only recourse those unregulated bookmakers had when their Spidey-senses tingled was to simply stop taking bets on the suspicious game.—
David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Dinged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinged. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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