Read full poem →Sodden and spongy, the scarce-green grass plot
Dents into pools where a foot has been.
Puddles lie spilt in the road a mass, not
Dictionary Entry
A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
In a Sentence
“The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.”
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Poetry examples for “dents”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →--Mère, que n'y occupent-elles leurs lèvres,
Et leurs trop courtes dents trop blanches
De porcelaine trop fragile!
Read full poem →Moi je serrais les dents pour ne pas pleurer,
et cette fille, je me sentais l'aimer.
Read full poem →mange lentement son pain
Parce que ses dents sont usées;
Et il boit avec beaucoup de mal
Read full poem →Whether they are to be legitimately borne by the descen-
dents of John Wheatley may be problematical.
