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Example sentences for "dented"

Lexicographically close words:
dentals; dentary; dentate; dentated; dente; dentelle; dentes; dentibus; dentical; denticles
  1. He tried to fathom the depths of the sun-bonnet, but it was dented on one side, and he could discern only a single pale blue eye and a thin black arch of eyebrow.

  2. It was spring, and down the long slopes of Buckeye Hill the flowers were already effacing the last dented footprints of the winter rains, and the winds no longer brought their monotonous patter.

  3. If you did I'd tumble to the ground, where my tin would be badly dented by the fall.

  4. The Scarecrow now took off his hat and made a dive from the boat into the water; but he was so light in weight that he barely dented the surface of the stream, nor could he reach the Tin Woodman with his outstretched straw arms.

  5. His feet were upon the opposite seat, the green carriage robe was wrapped snugly around him and his head was dented back into the soft cushions.

  6. It only dented him as the expression goes.

  7. Vain each twist and twine Those lithe limbs try, encroached on by a fluff Fitting as close as fits the dented spine Its flexible ivory outside-flesh: enough!

  8. My helmet was dented in from the swing of a mace.

  9. The steel was dented in but the sword shivered into a hundred pieces and left the useless pommel in its owner's hand.

  10. He drove it with all his strength into De Marsac's chest and dented the armor flat against his body.

  11. Its face is dented and splintered with cannon-shot and pitted all over by musket-bullets.

  12. Over a high wooden paling could be seen mountains of old rusty iron: springs and empty tins, bent iron beds, dented coal-boxes red with rust, and pails.

  13. He lifted his dented old hat, and rubbed his tousled head.

  14. The action of the weather has no effect upon this compound and it is proof against accident, for the tray may be dropped and the pad dented or cut into pieces, and the clay can be pressed back and leveled.

  15. I knew something was wrong with me, and now I can see that my side is dented in so that I lean over toward the left.

  16. Unless they get dented or rusted," said Woot, but both the tin men frowned on him.

  17. Here they dropped the poor Woodman, who fell a great distance to the rocks, where he lay so battered and dented that he could neither move nor groan.

  18. Even the pits of the small-pox which dented that veteran face seemed deeper, and the skin itself browner than usual.

  19. His helmet, which was of beaten gold, lay by his side dented with many a stroke of sword and battle-axe; and I saw that a wound upon his left temple corresponded to one of these indentations.

  20. Art pulled on his pants and kept his eyes on her comm, which was dented and scratched from a hundred thousand angry hang ups.

  21. Art ploughed into him, bounced off of his dented armor, and would have fallen over had Lester not caught his arm and steadied him.

  22. But although they dented it heavily, and sent some splinters flying, the portal held its own.

  23. The fabric was coarse with hairy strands, dented into little ravines and crevices.

  24. I can see yet the queer little heart-shaped pucker that dented the muscle-knotted calf of her leg when she swung up to the tips of her toes.

  25. Her hands were clenched till the nails dented the palms, and her body was rigid in her passionate effort for control.

  26. One end was cracked and dented from the capsize of the wagon in Rock Canyon.

  27. On either side of her neck, at the base, he dented gently with his thumbs, and she felt herself quickly growing unconscious.

  28. She deliberately experimented with it, smiled till the corners dented deeper.

  29. Short and thick-set, he had a bullet head, a bull's neck, and face and hands scarred and dented by more than a quarter of a century of toil.

  30. There, curled up like a water sprite on the unmade bunk lay Tootles in bathing clothes, holding a rubber cap in her hand, her head, with its golden bobbed hair, dented into a cushion.

  31. Having succeeded in backing his dented car out of the debris, Oldershaw leaped out.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dented" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alveolar; depressed; engraved; hollow; honeycombed; indented; notched; pitted; pocked; pockmarked