Sentence Examples

1. Up to this point, she had risen through the ranks of the Aesthetics School from student to courtesan by dint of effort and talent.
2. All this has been since then confirmed on those occasions, and they have been many, on which he has crossed our path, at one time to beg the shepherds to give him some of the food they carry, at another to take it from them by force for when there is a fit of madness upon him, even though the shepherds offer it freely, he will not accept it but snatches it from them by dint of blows but when he is in his senses he begs it for the love of God, courteously and civilly, and receives it with many thanks and not a few tears.
3. By dint of constantly dwelling on the idea that tranquillity was death, and if punishment were the end in view other tortures than death must be invented, he began to reflect on suicide.
4. To be brief, they fetched ropes and tackle, as the saying is, and by dint of many hands and much labour they drew up Dapple and Sancho Panza out of the darkness into the light of day.
5. The wound was not cicatrized, but Athos, by dint of conversing with his son and mixing a little more of his life with that of the young man, had brought him to understand that this pang of a first infidelity is necessary to every human existence and that no one has loved without encountering it.
6. By dint of entreaties, threats, commands, he succeeded in inducing a sentinel to speak to one of the subalterns, who went and told the major.
7. For, in respect to the latter branch of the supposition, it should be considered that the most trifling variation in the facts of the two cases might give rise to the most important miscalculations, by diverting thoroughly the two courses of events very much as, in arithmetic, an error which, in its own individuality, may be inappreciable, produces, at length, by dint of multiplication at all points of the process, a result enormously at variance with truth.
8. Arthur placed the point over the heart, and as I looked I could see its dint in the white flesh.
9. He dint remember if it got a sign on it or not and if it got one, it might not say Chicago.
10. Of the other three, citizens who, like himself, had reached the top through dint of talent and hard work, Arron was the archetypal civil servant.