The phrase "a dint" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a dent or a mark made by pressure, often in the context of something being affected or diminished.
Example: "He made a dint in the metal surface with a hammer."
Alternatives: "a dent" or "a mark".
Though gallery interest waned, it didn't put a dint in his productivity.
If the guys with bumper stickers ever poach a wolf, it's not making much of a dint in their recovery.
Jennifer Delahunty Britz, dean of admissions and financial aid at Kenyon College, suggests that at colleges that have reached the "tipping point"–with females constituting at least 60% of the undergraduate population you'll hear a dint of desperation in the voices of admissions officers".
However, one Australian from an earlier cricketing generation, Ernie Jones, dismissed Larwood: "He wouldn't knock a dint in a pound of butter on a hot day".
Georgia's Supreme Court put a dint on charter school growth in the summer of 2011 when it deemed a state-wide commission that approved the creation of charter schools unconstitutional.
Wee image o' my bonnie Betty, As fatherly I kiss and daut thee, As dear and near my heart I set thee, Wi' as guide will As a' the priests had seen me get thee That's out o'Hell! Sweet fruit o' mony a merry dint, My funny toil is no a' tint; Tho' ye come to the world askent, Which fools may scoff at, In my last plack your part's be in't, The better half o't.
On Capitol Hill, Mr. Gramm became the most effective proponent of deregulation in a generation, by dint of his expertise (a Ph.D in economics), free-market ideology, perch on the Senate banking committee and force of personality (a writer in Texas once called him "a snapping turtle").
First shows can make a vivid impression by dint of a never-before-encountered charisma alone – and when the novelty of that wears off, it leaves a big gap for material to fill.
In others' words "He was not born a king of men... but a child of the people, who made himself a great persuader, therefore a leader, by dint of firm resolve, patient effort and dogged perseverance".
Some are wealthy, some not, but all can get an average of $5,300 a family by dint of geography alone.
Mr. Kelly, who has been releasing albums for two decades, is a heritage act to this audience, and also in the context of this festival, a bit of an oddball by dint of his fame and also his genre, R&B, which has rarely been at the core of Pitchfork's mission.
