din
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Everyone knew their fellow New Yorkers needed a bit of a break, and for a short period, the usual din of the city calmed to a whisper.
From Slate β Sep. 11, 2026
“I would like a little more crouton,” she said over the din in the restaurant’s wood-paneled Manhattan dining room.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 31, 2026
Amid the din of his frenetic business career, there’s a constant in Kushner’s life that he cites for keeping him grounded.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 30, 2026
But it's not the din of a 1.6-litre V6 turbo hybrid engine which has caused the alarm.
From BBC β Jul. 6, 2026
“You can have the shawarma!” he shouted over the ghostly din.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The river gurgles like his throat, In little choking coves, And loudly dins that phantom note From out the awful groves.
From Rolling Stones by O. Henry
The poet dins the chastity of his mistress into his readers' heads until the readers in self-defence are driven to say, "Sir, did any one doubt it?"
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
The tunnel is filled with smoke, and a continuous reverberation dins our ears.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
I’ve been oppressed by all these facts and evidence that dinned against My simple claim that I am not more sinning than I’m sinned against.
From Washington Post β Jul. 7, 2021
Precisely at this moment the unexploded Nazi bomb exploded and a shower of rubble dinned like hail on the roof of the Duke's car.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And when word of the disaster dinned back into the ears of Commander in Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, as he sat amid his battleships several-hundred useless miles to the northwest, the master planner could only groan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A tormenting question dinned last week in the brain of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss: "Where will my wife and the children be safe?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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They had been dinned into her these past few months, the thousand details of a new admission.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The courtyard features al fresco dinning and fireplaces, as well as sweeping westerly views that capture sunsets and city lights.
From Seattle Times β Jul. 9, 2021
In June, we dragged the tables outside and set up the planter boxes for outdoor dinning.
From Slate β Sep. 17, 2020
The house had an unfinished quality, and chickens strutted through the dinning room.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 8, 2019
Haven't eaten in the dinning room in years, no need to spend that kind of money when the dishes in the tavern are so terrific.
From New York Times β Aug. 16, 2016
And then a great thudding and bumping, like huge rams dinning on the ground.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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