Sentence examples for slight dent from inspiring English sources

She had bought a tin of spaghetti that had a very slight dent in it.

Where money is collected, it makes only a slight dent in prison costs.

Triangular, it had a slight dent or hole in its branches.

"This contract does nothing to even make a slight dent in the fundamental problems," she added.

Measuring just over 100 metres across, the depression is underwhelming, a slight dent in the ground.

Long, thin middle and hind legs spread the points of contact with the water, with the tarsus of each leg causing only a slight dent in the surface film.

Sanctions, ostracism and tough talking have clearly all failed to make the slightest dent in the regime's behaviour.

So their taxes will go on subsidising the comfortable, me included, as they visit paying entry fees which don't make the slightest dent on their income.

I can assure Mr. Alford that my best efforts over many years have not made the slightest dent in modern manners, and neither will his.

It's that they know from long experience that the identity of the minister in charge makes only the slightest dent in the policy of the department.

Yet neither Cobb's blindingly bright Right Stuff nor the qualifications of any other candidates who participated in the Lovelace venture made the slightest dent in the space agency's resistance to women as astronauts.