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
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
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
Ali: I felt a tinge of sadness and loss watching those flashback scenes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
The paint was not as white and glossy as before; it had a gray tinge.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
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
The way the pale rice tinges brown with vinegar as it moves through his hands.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
The most memorable involve competitive struggles that carry tinges of social significance: Billie Jean King versus Bobby Riggs, the Dodgers versus the Astros’ drummer, Lance Armstrong versus the truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 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
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
While City fans were clearly delighted with the victory - and Shaw's significant part in it - it would have been tinged with anxiety over her future.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Her performance is tinged with the unmistakable sound of uncertainty.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
The sky was still blue, but it was darkening; the air clear, but tinged just slightly with the scent of ozone.
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
“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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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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