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tinge

[tinj] / tɪndʒ /




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And if it does transpire to be his final week, he will no doubt depart with a tinge of regret.

From BBC May 19, 2026

It’s set in a bougie bohemian realm inhabited by actors and writers, cultural nomads who have mystery and money, and a tinge of the sordid about them.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

Some of the show’s most delicious moments feature Olyphant’s android responding to its bratty creator’s slight by simply staring at him with a tinge of menace before acknowledging his demand.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2025

In a song released ahead of Lord Huron’s new album, the frontman/guitarist wonders, via impassioned vocals with a tinge of desperation, “if no one lives forever, who laughs last?”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2025

But when he speaks, his voice has a sad tinge to it.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

That this sourness tinges the latest “Joe Schmo Show” may be unavoidable.

From Salon Jan. 21, 2025

There are even a few fun science fiction tinges, as the McCunes rely on handmade technology that seems beguilingly alien for the era.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2022

The way the pale rice tinges brown with vinegar as it moves through his hands.

From New York Times Jan. 4, 2022

In the Hoh Rain Forest, one of the world’s wettest places, you’ll find trees hundreds of feet tall exploding in brilliant tinges of green.

From Seattle Times Aug. 25, 2021

Still, that just made the next step all the more urgent, especially with the faintest of orange tinges creeping into the sky.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

"We're getting nice ''veraison' here, look at that," she says, showing me a bunch where some of the young green fruit are turning purple, tinged with grey.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

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

Mr. Spencer replied, his voice tinged with anger.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

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

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

“Why?” my mom asks, panic tingeing her voice.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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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