Read full poem →Or Trent, who like some earth-born Giant spreads
His thirty Armes along the indented Meads,
Or sullen Mole that runneth underneath,
Dictionary Entry
To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
In a Sentence
“to indent the edge of paper”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. indentedservants indentedindented deeplyindented slightly
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Related Words
Poetry examples for “indented”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →'stage-directions' are given on the line BEFORE the first line they
refer to, and are furthermore indented 20 spaces and enclosed by #s to
keep it clear to the reader which parts are text and which parts
Read full poem →Lines longer than 78 characters are broken and the continuation
is indented two spaces.]
Read full poem →This pond'rous heel of perforated hide
Compact, with pegs indented, many a row,
Haply,--for such its massy form bespeaks,--