Sentence examples for with a dent from inspiring English sources

I was looking for something nongeneric — an older-model convertible, perhaps with a dent or two, an item not unheard-of in Portland's nongeneric commercial world.

On the second page of the search results were photos of a red and white Monza with a dent in the door panel.

With echoes of the chase for Dr Richard Kimble in "The Fugitive", the US marshals service has issued a picture of a huge white Freelander camper van with a dent on its rear passenger side.

Master masons were brought north from Durham, the site of one of England's finest cathedrals, to build its massive yet graceful pillars of coral sandstone, one of them containing the martyr's skeleton, complete with a dent in the skull.

"A microwave oven with a dent can still heat food".

The results show the particle deposits formed by evaporative drying of these lines to be of non-uniform thickness with a dent in the middle of the lateral cross-section.

Hong Kong made the transformation with scarcely a dent in the economy's near-full employment, and with a huge leap in general prosperity.Two new books on Hong Kong's economy, "The Hong Kong Advantage"* and "Made by Hong Kong"†, suggest that the territory is well placed once again to adapt to changing circumstances.

When a fish stock collapses in a region, suppliers source fish elsewhere with barely a dent in fish prices.

Pastas, veal and chicken dishes, all strong suits here, can be ordered with nary a dent in diners' wallets.

And even when it wasn't (such as Wild, Wild West) Smith shimmied out of the wreckage with barely a dent in his box-office appeal – that is the true mark of a bankable star.

"Atlas Shrugged: Part II" -- bowing in 1,000 theaters this weekend, compared with over 3,000 for "Argo" -- won't make much of a dent with an expected $3-million 3-million start