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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

On Thursday the pitch looked to have a thick covering of grass, but by Friday it was losing its green tinge.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

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

His red hair was cut so short it was just a tinge of rust creeping out of his cap.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

Erivo supplies the film with Elphaba’s tinges of long-held sorrow and confusion that allow “Wicked” to be in conversation with the world it’s being released into.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024

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

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

As in “The Times Are Racing,” the music for “Hurry Up” is anthemic electronic pop, ultrabright with wistful tinges — in this case, from the M83 double album also called “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.”

From New York Times ● May 14, 2020

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

Death is big business in Ivory Coast, where families are expected to say goodbye to their loved ones with massive, music-fuelled feasts tinged with moments of both joy and sadness.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

"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

Clever citrine eyes danced back and forth as Mama tinkered with the lock, and when the beast flicked his forked black tongue between the bars, a smell like smoke tinged the dry air.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

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

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

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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