1. Record oil prices have dented consumer confidence. 前所未有的高油价已经挫伤消费者信心。
2. Its brass feet dented the carpet's thick pile. 它的铜支架把厚厚的地毯表面压出了印痕。
3. The back of the car was badly dented in the collision. 汽车尾部被撞后严重凹陷。
4. The vehicles are without exception old, rusty and dented. 这些车辆无一例外地破旧、锈迹斑斑且有撞痕。
5. No decentralizing technology so far—not telephones, not television, and not the internet—has dented that human desire to shake hands, despite technologists' predictions to the contrary. 到目前为止，没有一种技术能将人们分散开来，比如电话、电视和互联网，这些都没有削弱人们握手的欲望，尽管技术专家的预测与此相反。
