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dimpled

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verb

past tense of dimple

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dimpled
Adjective
The fabrics utilize the same aerodynamic principles as a golf ball, whose dimpled surface causes a ball to fly further by using turbulence to reduce drag. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2025 Is it meant to suggest something about focaccia’s typically dimpled surface, in which case … kinda rude? Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025 Her legacy shines through in every quip and dimpled smile, a reminder of a star who owned every room. Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimpled
Adjective
  • They’re finished with deep cupped footbeds and come in six colors.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • It was cut in eight slices, each with one flat piece of pepperoni and and one cupped piece.
    Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Zimbabwean economist and former opposition parliamentarian, Eddie Cross, said the resolution to extend Mnangagwa’s rule had dented economic confidence.
    Tawanda Karombo, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Her candor hasn’t been dented—this is a woman who clearly feels and cares deeply about the world.
    Helen Mirren, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Swag- gering, pockmarked, armed.
    Harpers Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • BepiColumbo conducted a close flyby of Mercury in January, taking some spectacular images of its pockmarked surface.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps, curled inside the turbulent virginal atmosphere, Helm dreams of being a storm, has a prophetic vision of destruction, feels a natural calling.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Yet the best goal of the night went to Rose Lavelle, whose volley from outside the box curled perfectly into the side netting to give the USWNT a 3-0 lead at the half.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Visitors who travel down a dirt road to The Hollow — named for the hollow-core concrete that made Mellor wealthy — can enter the compound through a dark, cavernous passage lined with neon signs illuminating maxims from the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Flynn.
    Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Several analysts noted a strong debate performance from Sliwa, but not strong enough to make up his cavernous polling deficit.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Enormous ventilation pipes were coiled like snakes on the roof of the building.
    Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Anyway, because of the *slightly* complex situation with the aneurysm (nothing bad, just not typical), it wasn’t coiled that weekend.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The smallest, what are called ultrafine particles, even slip through the alveolar capillary barrier itself, crossing into the bloodstream, and from there travel throughout the body, including to the heart, the brain, and the kidneys to initiate even more destruction and disease (see below).
    Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The carbon-containing alveolar macrophages in COPD patients’ lungs were also larger than macrophages without visible carbon, the study found.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • With both of these cases being largely hollow and uninteresting, even despite the involvement of a traffic-cone-size butt plug, the burden is on Allura’s arc to grip us.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Any other creation theory – hollow Earth, flat Earth, mud collection, hanging cord, corpse reuse, dreamtime, biosphere as gemstone in the ring of a galactic giant, please insert alternative here.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025

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“Dimpled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimpled. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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