Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• Definition of “make a dent in something”
• Fig. to use only a little of something; to make a small amount of progress with something. Look at what's left on your plate! You hardly made a dent in your dinner.
• It's going to take more than a new law to make a dent in the city's drug crime. [=a new law is not enough to decrease the city's drug crime]. The $10,000 payment ...
• to leave a dent in one's savings; a dent in one's pride. verb (used with object). 3. to make a dent in or on; indent : The impact dented the car's fender. 4. to have ...
• English Dictionary. English ... I haven't ?even made a dent in that ?huge ?stack of ?papers I have to ?read.

• Steve Jobs: Making a dent in the universe. Comments. By Jason Snell, Macworld. I was in the third hour of a three
• hour meeting on the afternoon of October 5, ...
• a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow. 2. a noticeable effect, especially of reduction: to leave a dent in one's savings; a dent in one's pride.
• 2 : an appreciable impression or effect often made against resistance a dent in the problem>; specifically : a weakening or lessening effect < costs ...
• A depression in a surface made by pressure or a blow: a dent in the side of a car. 2. Informal A significant, usually diminishing effect or impression: The loss put a ...