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tinge

[tinj] / tɪndʒ /




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“From that point on, there’s a tinge of darkness,” composer Rock Burwell said of that signal moment in “Obsession.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

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

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

If there’s any qualm in Cosm’s work it’s that at times there could be a tinge more self-control in order to let the film do its work.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

“There’s even a tinge of blue there. See that?”

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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

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

“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 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

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

Bod looked up at the city, and was horrified: an emotion engulfed him that mingled repulsion and fear, disgust and loathing, all tinged with shock.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

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

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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