- present tense form of dot (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The Bamboo Room, a smaller bar within the sprawling Chicago tiki oasis Three Dots and a Dash, attracts a regular crowd of devotees who love its rum flights and elevated takes on tiki classics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
But even if you don’t win a gift at the fair, there will be other free offerings including complimentary Dippin’ Dots ice cream and samples from West Hollywood Edition’s signature restaurant, Ardor.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
Unlike ordinary black holes, those presumably present in the Little Red Dots don’t show any sign of X-ray emission.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2024
Ella Cheever Thayer’s 1879 hit novel Wired Love: A Romance in Dots and Dashes suggests that both can be true.
From Slate • May 27, 2024
Dots and ties give you much freedom to write notes of varying lengths, but so far you must build your notes from halves of other notes.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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