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US
/ˈdɛntɪd/
]
[ UK /dˈɛntɪd/ ]
[ UK /dˈɛntɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
of metal e.g.
bent nails
a car with a crumpled front end
dented fenders
How To Use dented In A Sentence
- The financial managers and economic wizards are happy that Pakistan has achieved a level of macro-economic stabilization, which is spectacular and unprecedented.
- He has received several teaching awards, as well as the unprecedented award of being ‘the most quotable professor’ by MathSoc.
- The lower mandible, which is powerful, and is indented at its point to receive the hook, has a very sharp edge, which, with that of the upper mandible, constitutes a pair of formidable shears. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite. Times, Sunday Times
- I've got a face like a punctured beachball, like an arse that's fallen downstairs, like a rucksack full of dented bells. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
- The spoon had been bent into such a shape that would provide louder clanging, and the pot was misshapen, being dented in many places.
- And yet I often wonder whether even he might not have found the last six years almost too highly “accidented” even for him. The Adventure of Living
- Tugela Ferry's bug, however, takes on average an unprecedented 25 days after diagnosis to kill...
- Islam has changed unprecedentedly in the domain of life and culture in the tidal current of adapting to Socialism society and time, and has stridden into a rational development time.
- The economic slowdown has dented demand for petrol and diesel, into which biofuels are mixed. Times, Sunday Times