20 example sentences using dent.
Dent used in a sentence
Dent in a sentence as a noun
What kind of dent can a convenience store clerk make?
I'm willing to take the dent in my average post score, that's how much I love the dang stuff.
But google, with its control of youtube and Android, can make a serious dent in that.
For us, the consultant-generated tech is a dent in the Porsche.
Shutting down these sites will not even make a dent in the demand for prositution.
"This guy failed to make a major dent in music, and then moved into gaming because he thought he was good at Battlefield.
But personally, I hate that it's always indoors and sedentary.
This man is described as an "independent market trader" in the attached article.
Why do they have to lash out like a schoolyard bully at anybody that threatens to put the tiniest dent in their giant pile of cash money?
In a situation of such great uncertainty in the market, the government is the only source of demand big enough to make a dent.
Dent in a sentence as a verb
Amazon's MP3 store, despite launching with cheaper and DRM-free music, has never been able to make a serious dent in iTunes' market share.
Eventually, it even sold its residential phone business off.
He's now financially and emotionally invested in a market crash, so of course he will be confident that it's going to happen.
People who work hard to make a dent in the universe will anyway, and people who just mess around don't really get much done at work anyway, so why keep up the charade?
Google has become this unwieldily beast that doesn't care how frustrated its users become, because it knows not enough of them will leave to have even the slightest dent in their revenue.
A civic-minded hacker that wanted to improve the criminal justice process in the US could make a large dent in the problem by coming up with something that would help the electorate handle judicial elections.
If this trend continues, and if Windows 7 continues to be "good enough" for most people, it'll be years before we see enough adoption of Windows 8 to make a dent in malware, which gives the malware developers plenty of time to adapt.
People who work hard to make a dent in the universe will anyway, and people who just mess around don't really get much done at work anyway, so why keep up the charade?This is typical libertarian claptrap, from the Skilled White Male litany.
Microsoft especially is in a unique position to do this because they can legally do things like repair infected or damaged components of Microsoft software from clean copies, which might be a legal gray area for independent companies.
I broke the habit by refusing to buy games that didn't fit a very particular set of criteria:They have to be...- single-player,- story-based campaigns- with a target completion time under 30 hours- and a Metacritic score above 85%.This way, I can play 5 to 10 games per calendar year without a dramatic dent on my social or professional lives.
Dent definitions
an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening); "it made a dent in my bank account"
make a depression into; "The bicycle dented my car"
See also: indent