Dinted

It collapsed, a dinted and dinged warrior, what I liked to think of as the fighter who met his end crushed by Goliath right before David was up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He brought it out, barely dinted from its passage through flesh and bone, and dropped it aside in the grass. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They pushed it out into the dim light¾an old army colored footlocker, dinted and scratched, with a large rusted padlock jammed through the steel ring. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nothing Linus did could make her cry, nothing dinted her sunny disposition. ❋ Kate Morton (2009)

When Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California, highly plausible claims that he had made unwelcome advances towards a number of women scarcely dinted his election prospects. ❋ Gerard Baker (2009)

Ye maun ken he had a way of bending his brows, that men saw the visible mark of a horseshoe in his forehead, deep dinted, as if it had been stamped there. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An old dinted corselet, and a helmet, had been hanging in the church so long, that the same weak half – blind old man who tried in vain to make them out above the whitewashed arch, had marvelled at them as a baby. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In his master's steps he trod, where the snow lay dinted; ❋ Divers (2007)

The locks that held band and chain were massive affairs that a sledge-hammer could hardly have dinted. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2006)

The growth prospects of the world's third-best-selling drug may have just been dinted. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It had once evidently been highly polished, but now the surface was thickly dinted as if savage efforts had been made to demolish it; but the hammers had done little more than to flake off small bits of stone and mutilate the characters which once had evidently marched up in a spiraling line round and round the shaft to the top. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

The stone of which it was composed was a dully gleaming black, whose surface, where it was not dinted and roughened, created a curious illusion of semi-transparency. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

Glass shards covered the floor like a jeweled carpet, and dinted pewter trays and cups lay twisted at the base of scarred and notched plaster walls. ❋ Connie Brockway (2004)

No one, no matter how sophisticated or urbane, had dinted her laughing self-possession. ❋ Connie Brockway (2004)