Sentence examples for a dent for from inspiring English sources

EDWARD FERGUSON, Brooklyn To the Sports Editor: A 50-game penalty hardly makes a dent for a player earning millions per season.

In spherically expanding laminar flames, the shape of cusps in the flame surface was shown to change from a dent for flames with positive Markstein numbers to a Huygen type cusp at lower Markstein numbers and finally complete quench was observed at the cusp tip on flames with negative Markstein numbers.

"You have to do everything to make a dent," vamp for magazine covers, design a fashion line, show a lot of skin, Ms. Keaton said without the faintest hint of judgment.

Not a huge dent for someone who not long ago shelled out a reported $110 million for Jasper Johns' "Flag," a painting done in 1958.

Stephen P. Jenco, research services manager at the Fairfield office of Grubb & Ellis, the national brokerage company, added: "New construction is not putting a dent in demand for industrial space, which may even be stronger than the demand for offices".

That would put a dent in the fee-for-service data vault business.

Since then there has been a sharp price increase, with the global economic downturn barely making a dent in prices for new housing, agents said.

Heavier clothing is typicallymore expensive than summer T-shirts, so a continuing heatwave will put a dent in profits for fashion stores at what is usually their busiest time of year.

That year, a little girl's heart received a dent that remained for years.

The year was 1999 and a consistent stream of films directed by black directors had been making a dent in Hollywood for over a decade.

"To have something that has a dent on a Republican for president and they voted for all the Democrats, that's something.