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Example sentences for: dent

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Two hours on the golf course makes a serious dent in the problem of getting some exercise; maybe it's time to see what else in life is worthy of attention.
Northeast Borneo (Sabah) was “rented” from the Sultan of Brunei by British businessman Alfred Dent.
The first cuts the much-loathed annual license fee on cars from 2.2 percent of the car's value to a flat fee of $30, putting a $750 million a year dent in state and local revenues.
First, U.S. disruption efforts thus far had "not put too much of a dent" in Bin Ladin's network.
But, notes the NYT , there are still concerns: a government test has found that there are reliability problems, many due to limitations of battery life, and even if perfected, the technology would make no dent in gun suicide by rightful gun owners, or in the gun deaths lurking in the form of all the "dumb" guns already out there.