din
noun
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
had dinned
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past perfectof din.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For 53 days the Voice, harsh, flat and earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial.
From Time Magazine Archive
All your life Mamma had dinned into you the agony of separation from God, and the necessity of the Atonement.
From Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair
His mother had dinned into his ears the slogan: "George, be king!"
From History of the United States by Charles A. (Charles Austin) Beard
Stevenson, in his Samoan days, harked back to the teaching of his youth; the tenets of the Shorter Catechism, which his mother and nurse had dinned into his head, were not forgotten.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
How many, many a "don't" the colonial miss had dinned into her ears!
From Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Carl Holliday
