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Making little dents in
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dimpling
Word definitions for dimpling in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The formation of a dimple. vb. (present participle of dimple English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dimple \Dim"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dimpled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dimpling .] To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. --Dryden.
Usage examples of dimpling.
To gain the crystal sphere, the silver dime, Where Sympathy sits dimpling on us yet, Let us be drunk!
He looked up and saw that the dome was dimpling here and there as meteoroids struck its surface.
Monique smiled at him in her dimpling motherly way, then excused herself and left.
The crush of mutated wasps swarming over the bubble-house filled Paul with claustrophobic terror—any moment the barbed stingers dimpling the transparent walls would break through and the whole thing would dissolve into tatters, dropping the squirming mass directly on top of them.
The bubble bounced from one swift-moving eddy to another, barely dimpling the surface of the water.
I could feel small chilly drops on my face, and see the dimpling of the water in the puddle where the firelight shone across it.
She gave Ramses her hand and shook her head, dimpling, when he addressed her as Miss Reynolds.
Eyes rolled like loose marbles, but no one was motivated to go to the kitchen and investigate the disaster “I’m so excited that Caron’s my new trainee,” Pippa chirped, dimpling at me.
She could see the currents between the stars, knew the dimplings and the holes, the shallows and the chasms planets and stars made.