Sentence examples for dent from inspiring English sources

Brentford lost to dent their play-off hopes.

A car is a must for exploring this somewhat sprawling island, and handy for picking up groceries to cook in the cottage kitchens – taking taxis will put a good dent in your budget.

After the screening, Rainer Schulze, a history professor at the University of Essex, said he theorised that the failure of earlier concentration camp films, such as the Billy Wilder-directed Death Mills, had failed to dent what he calls the "denial" and "amnesia" of the German population in the immediate postwar period.

Play that out on a global scale, and you can make a serious dent in climate change.

Related: ICM poll: Labour faces wipeout in Scotland after new leader fails to dent SNP support A coalition – technically defined as a government with ministers of both parties – between Labour and the SNP is highly unlikely, and both parties have in fact ruled one out.

Britain's leading corporate lobby group has insisted the government should press ahead with its austerity drive, despite warnings that another round of deep cuts could dent the recovery.

But every once in a while, I have a day where I watch patients be given holistic care which makes a real emotional dent in my hardened medical student heart and I realise that individual staff-patient interactions lie at the core of what makes the NHS worth keeping.

Aberdeen made a minimal dent into Celtic's lead at the top of the table as they had to settle for a point from a tightly contested clash with Partick.

The Tories' belief that the British public's doubts over Miliband's suitability for the premiership may still end up being prophetic, yet right now any such concerns aren't putting a dent in the polling deadlock.

For Iowa winner Mitt Romney, the latest polls show little dent in his commanding New Hampshire lead – although disturbing news from Iowa suggests that his narrow victory there on Tuesday night may have actually been a narrow defeat thanks to overcounting of his votes.

It would be the first major dent in the common European currency.