tinge
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Though he thinks many students genuinely like the drinks, he says some are attracted to their novelty and drink them with a tinge of irony, joking about being "obsessed" with them.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
Long before apps like Alarmy, makers of alarm clocks recognized that some of their products needed a tinge of menace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Even with approximately 1,000 ravers in attendance, Laxe experienced a tinge of disappointment: He was optimistically expecting 3,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
Uncertain what kind of family we could provide if they stayed, we’d always miss them, but I also felt a tinge of relief having our lives back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
“Sometimes I feel like something awful’s going to happen to me,” Bigger spoke with a tinge of bitter pride in his voice.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Later, Agnes sits in the bath as she describes to Lydie what happened, a moment made all the more disarming for the tinges of humor that Victor still manages to bring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
That this sourness tinges the latest “Joe Schmo Show” may be unavoidable.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
Right now, it has tinges of Merle Haggard singing, “If we make it through December.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
The blast itself fills two pages with white, plus tinges of pink.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Moonlight from the windows tinges every room a ghostly blue-white, and they are, all of them, empty.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
This year the clamor is louder, more aggressive, and tinged with showy economic threats.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
Direct attacks on a competitor are rare in advertising, she said, as are politically tinged messages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Her performance is tinged with the unmistakable sound of uncertainty.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
The biggest event in American sports kicks off Sunday as the New England Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks at a Super Bowl tinged by controversy over Bad Bunny's half-time show.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
Her words were always tinged with apology, like she knew she was saying the wrong thing but didn’t know how to stop herself.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
Like a fiery djinn, the hydrogen bomb hung over the House of Commons, shaping every speech, tingeing every mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Novels like these not only induce insomnia but are also hallucinogenic, tingeing with fantasy the reader's remembrance of known fact.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dawn breaks, the sun’s rays tracing the sky above Blackcliff’s ebony belltower like bloodied fingers, tingeing everyone in the courtyard a lurid red.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
“Why?” my mom asks, panic tingeing her voice.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
I put a pan on the stove and dry toasted the cacao nibs, tingeing the air with the earthy scent I loved.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
Then the graphic qualifies even that, adding "barely" before "coping," tinging the word a furious flush of pink that seethes into red.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2020
It was long believed that Sativa’s ailing pipelines were responsible for delivering manganese into the water supply and tinging the water brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2019
Even the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead views its sad, shuffling working-class protagonists from a jaded distance, tinging its humor and affection with mockery and blood.
From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2018
Wherever the “Peter Pan” fantasy turns up, though, her artwork blooms into color, suffusing Wendy’s dreams of Neverland and tinging the elements of the real world that she’s charged with her hopeful imaginings.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
All those scraggy- looking Santa Clauses were standing on corners ringing those bells, and the Salvation Army girls, the ones that don't wear any lipstick or anything, were tinging bells too.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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