tinge
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The song offers “nostalgia with a tinge of hope,” explains Ceylon Andi Hickman, a 30-year-old England supporter in London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 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
The paper said it was "of no party or faction" and boasted "a tinge of republicanism".
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 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
A gray tinge lingers just under the whiteness of her skin, and tiny patches of whiskers crop up along her cheeks.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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 kind of fatalism tinges her early hits, like in "Fame" when she swears "I'm gonna live forever."
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022
Defective plumbing that tinges water brown or creates an odd taste can also turn people away from the faucet.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
“He’s just like all the other dads,” the lyrics say, before the repeated chorus of the band’s Coolum Beach postcode – “4573! 4573!” – tinges local pride with something more sinister.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2020
The open sky in front of him was a deep purple, slowly fading into the bright blue of day, with tinges of orange from the sun on a distant, flat horizon.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
But the memory is tinged with frustration because, just as in 2025 and 2020, Lokomotive's league title did not lead to promotion.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
But when Good was killed, our anger was tinged with fear.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 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
These stories work because, as excessive as they are, they’re tinged with believability.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
Everything around her was tinged with a golden haze.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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
Like a fiery djinn, the hydrogen bomb hung over the House of Commons, shaping every speech, tingeing every mind.
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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