How to Use dimple in a Sentence

dimple

1 of 2 noun

• She noticed his dimples when he smiled.
• Stack had dimples, and Smoke didn’t.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 25 Feb. 2026
• Both girls have blonde hair, blue eyes and matching cheek dimples.
  — Sswindler, oregonlive, 1 June 2023
• The poles are the fruit's top and bottom ends, with the dimples.
  — Hannah Harper, Health, 20 Dec. 2025
• The key is unusual, in that the square shaft has dimples on four sides.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2020
• Eevee, all dimples and blonde curls and large blue eyes, giggled and shrieked in delight.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2017
• So much water that each dimple in the landscape fills up, turns green and writhes with life again.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
• But there was always more to Aydın than his aw-shucks dimples.
  — Moisés Naím, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
• Our boy with downy hair on his shoulders, a giant big toe like mine, and a dimple on his left cheek.
  — Jacob Baynham, Esquire, 8 May 2014
• In some cases, breast cancer can cause redness or dimples on breast skin.
  — Ashley Abramson, Allure, 17 Oct. 2024
• The dimples are from abundant colonies of crabs just under the surface.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
• His back is sun-kissed with a tan that fades as his hips narrow to dimples and to a pale, taut backside.
  — Vogue, 24 Jan. 2019
• That’s about as common as having blue eyes, dimples or a unibrow.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• The rows of dimples, Ford told me, are supposed to be as straight as arrows.
  — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
• Here and there, swirls and dimples on the surface gave away the movements of striped mullet.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2018
• At this point, pressing on the dough with your finger should make a dimple that springs back slowly.
  — Kim Ode, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• Try to place them at a slight angle so water doesn't collect in the dimple at the top of the bulb.
  — Nicole Bradley, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
• Looks like amazing acting chops (not to mention curly hair and adorable dimples) run in the fam.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 24 Apr. 2015
• Use your thumbs to create a 1-inch dimple in the center of each patty.
  — Kate Williams, AJC.com, 1 Feb. 2026
• The granton edge, noted by the row of dimples on the blade, helps to keep food from sticking to its surface.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Then oil your hands again and play the piano on the soft dough, creating dimples all over, an inch apart or so.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 6 Mar. 2018
• Place one of the dough balls into each dimple, pressing gently to adhere it.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• Normal skin has texture to it, from dimples and wrinkles to creases and stretch marks.
  — Danielle Blundell, womenshealthmag.com, 6 May 2023
• Look for water ripples or dimples in the sand as a wave recedes from the beach, back into the ocean.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
• If left this way before painting, a small dimple will be visible.
  — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2023
• Gently roll each piece down the back of the prongs of a fork while pressing on it with your finger to make a small dimple.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
• The case is clear plastic as before, though now with a flatter lid, and with a smaller dimple in it.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• Place a pencil at the dimple of your nose (where a piercing would go) and point it straight up; this is where your brow should start.
  — Melanie Rud Chadwick, Allure, 29 Jan. 2018
• Since then, Lopez has brought his talent and his dimples to dozens to television shows and movies.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2017
• But if that man is a dog-loving, flute-playing, honorable hunk, and he's got dimples?
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 28 May 2023

dimple

2 of 2 verb

• Mesh panels, vents and dimpled foam keep air flowing through the vest.
  — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
• Here and there, barely submerged rocks cause the water to dimple and roil.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• Once your dough is in the pan and has doubled in size, proceed to dimple it and drizzle it with olive oil.
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 25 Apr. 2020
• Changes, like dimpling, become visible when the skin is pinched.
  — Rena Goldman, Health, 28 June 2026
• Abdullah had lively eyes, dimpled cheeks and a goofy sense of humor.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Erosions are a loss of skin layers, causing skin depression or dimpling along the skin.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
• Light poured down the long hallway, dimpled and rose-colored, the dust from the carpet rising and falling.
  — Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
• Reliable trade winds dimple the desert-meets-ocean landscape with vast tidepools and low-tide lagoons.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2021
• Oil hands again and press fingertips firmly into dough, pushing down all the way to bottom of pan to dimple all over.
  — Claire Saffitz, Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
• The snowbanks by the entryway are dimpled by an assortment of kitten heels.
  — Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
• Place the dough in the center of the sheet tray and gently dimple the dough, pressing it down and stretching it out to fill the surface area of the tray.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2018
• When ready to bake, aggressively dimple the surface of the bread, pressing out the bigger gas bubbles.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2018
• Luminous deep-blue eyes under those famous dark brows, delicate features, dimpled smile and a glossy brunette mane.
  — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Offshore menhaden schools will dimple the surface as the sun rises, normally within a couple miles of shore.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
• The wall between the passenger compartment and engine is dimpled like a golf ball to reduce vibration and noise.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2019
• Uncover the pans; starting at the center of the dough, with your fingers angled toward the edges and corners, dimple the dough outward again.
  — Marian Bull, Saveur, 30 May 2019
• Although more research is needed, results can last six months or more, however dimpling usually returns.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 28 Mar. 2024
• Continue dimpling and resting the dough at 20-minute intervals; by the third or fourth round, the dough should cover the entire surface of the pan.
  — Marian Bull, Saveur, 30 May 2019
• The research team revealed that the new type of textile uses dimpling to adjust its aerodynamic properties.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2025
• Rivers and streams crisscross the state, lakes dimple the mountains and, of course, the Pacific Ocean is the entire western border.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2021
• The primary indicators of breast cancer to be aware of include masses in the breast, skin changes or rashes, dimpling, and bloody nipple discharge.
  — Christina Ruffini, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
• These holes are placed strategically and vary in size in the mission of temperature management, as do dimples on the interior side.
  — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• This common skin condition that's readily recognized by texture that is lumpy, dimpled, or rippled in appearance.
  — Maddie Aberman, Women's Health, 27 June 2023
• Nearby a flat boulder cloaked in the shade of the yawning oak trees was dimpled with grinding holes created by nameless Native Americans, decades, or even centuries, ago.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
• Textile composite’s on-demand dimpling The textile composite’s on-demand dimpling is the result of a lattice pattern.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2025
• The new extension was designed to echo the district’s iconic machiya, wooden townhouses, and features dimpled naguri floors, bamboo screens, zelkova, chestnut and cherry wood touches.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2026
• From some untrodden, internal place, a visceral memory stirred, of holding up the page with Felicity pictured vertically in the centerfold, the midsection of her floral everyday dress dimpled by the magazine’s staples.
  — Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023