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dimpled

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verb

past tense of dimple

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimpled
Verb
  • The old woman, though, stares at the screen, the shadow of a smile curled into her lips and a frown barely creasing her forehead.
    Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The ball curled through the proverbial eye of a needle, between Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez, and behind Alexis Mac Allister, who was forced to spin on his heels.
    Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Dancers and musicians, drawn from each of the eight regions to have been awarded a franchise, performed at the Salt Lake Stadium, a cavernous concrete bowl on the outskirts of Kolkata, ahead of the opening game.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Blue marble and a cavernous below-ground auditorium, don’t quite work.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But in fact these dental alveolar syndesmoses (technical speak for the tiny ligamentous joint between the tooth and jaw socket) move all the time.
    Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Getting a tooth pulled carries a risk of experiencing a dry socket, also known as alveolar osteitis.
    Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 19 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • This now rings insultingly hollow— in 2021 Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed that the company, soon renamed Meta, did in fact have the tools to effectively halt the spread of dangerous disinformation on everything from politics to medicine.
    David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The five-star resort is reclaiming what mindful indulgence should’ve been all along: generous, grounded, and generative—not extractive or hollow.
    Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The project will produce 4 million tons of compressed bio-gas and 1.1 million metric tons of organic fertiliser annually when completed, Reliance said.
    Ian Sayson, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Ars previously covered a likely lithium-ion caused fire in a suburban Chicago truck that spread to the truck's compressed natural gas (CNG) tanks, causing an explosion that injured firefighters and damaged nearby homes.
    Kevin Purdy, ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Sheriff McDowell, who's on the ground wounded, sees Banner kill Clyde.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • On April 2, Russian forces launched multiple strikes on residential areas in the front line city of Pokrovsk, killing one civilian and wounding six others.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • While raising a family, Grimes enrolled at the University of Central Missouri.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Mom immediately enrolled us in gun safety classes – can't imagine why!
    James F. Hales Remembering Rogers, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Dimpled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimpled. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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