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
That was the very thing our officers had warned us against,—the least sign of hesitation or uncertainty,—the very danger every European with knowledge of the situation had dinned in our ears.
From Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses by Whitelaw Reid
I pictured myself working and studying and saving money for the kind of education which Matilda had dinned into my ears I accepted Gitelson's offer.
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
From Christmas and all through the spring my family and friends had dinned into my ears that now was my chance, and if I did not win this year I never would.
From Lawn Tennis for Ladies by Mrs. Lambert Chambers
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
