dimpling

present participle of dimple

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimpling
Verb
  • The data has grown more important in recent weeks, as the prospect of higher inflation possibly denting the interest rate outlook is considered a major risk for equities.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For Windows users, nothing has come close to unseating Chrome’s de facto default status in the Windows ecosystem or even denting its market share.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass wrote, directed and starred in this blood-curling 2014 film that follows a videographer who takes on a job for an eccentric client.
    Emy LaCroix, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Seasonal activities are planned according to guest request and include curling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and ice skating on nearby Lake Placid.
    Suzanne Wright, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Dense dust lanes can be seen coiling around Andromeda's glowing galactic center, which is thought to house a supermassive black hole 140 million times more massive than our sun.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the picture, the famous momager posed with a red rose in her mouth and flashed a diamond bracelet while waving to the camera.
    Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In front of the Idaho State Capitol steps on Saturday morning, the street was lined with people waving American flags as historic military vehicles and military personnel both current and former made their way through downtown.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • When a publisher approached Deakins about writing a book, thinking of it more as a straightforward autobiography or Hollywood tell-all, Deakins was much more interested in the roadmap of how people get started as storytellers and the usually unusual, winding roads their careers take them on.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The subsidies — which had been at the center of the fight over the US government shutdown — aren’t part of a deal winding through Congress to end the 42-day government shutdown.
    Caitlyn Reilly, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The film follows seventeen-year-old Katie Thompson, a troubled teen spiralling after the tragic death of her younger brother – a loss that has left her not only emotionally scarred but also cursed with a disturbing ability to glimpse the world beyond the living.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But man, these guys are spiraling.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • That’s especially true of the Princeton museum, a jangling grid of gray concrete boxes set into the sloping campus.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The quick loss of water is even more evident in areas with banks, sloping lawns, and those with lots of hardscaping like walkways.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The seven-mile Torreya Challenge Loop steadily climbs and dips, meandering over creeks, an old forest road, and blackberry brambles, following a ridge where mountain laurels bloom in the spring and visitors can find the steepest incline in the park.
    Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The comment — which instantly became prime-time cable fodder — came in the middle of a meandering and misleading response to a question from Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Dimpling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimpling. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.

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