Example Sentences

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Hilary first started coming to Thorpeness as a child on holiday with her family, eventually buying her ground-floor flat in Tinkers End two decades ago.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

His debut novel Tinkers won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023

But Levy's outburst has made her a potential successor to the Tinkers and their antiwar protest from the 1960s.

From Fox News • Apr. 26, 2021

Before that it was "Tinkers," a Pulitzer-winning journey into the painful past of a dying clock repairer, by Paul Harding.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2012

Tinkers always have their ears to the ground.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss