tinge

“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

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

The paper said it was "of no party or faction" and boasted "a tinge of republicanism".

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025

Mark’s attention was fully on the man in the green suit now, and a sudden gray tinge washed over the man’s face, as if he’d been possessed by some ghostly presence.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

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

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’re all these different tinges — but that’s an entirely different conversation.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 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

The barest frisson of tension tinges Helene’s voice, and I clear my throat.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Her “Soul Mates” may be a ghost story or a tale of wish fulfillment tinged with the fabulous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"In this new wave, it's women who are taking the lead, with writing often tinged with feminism, but also often quite dark and violent, punctuated by surreal touches," she noted.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

This year the clamor is louder, more aggressive, and tinged with showy economic threats.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

"His performance certainly seems tinged with the courageous naivety of Spider-Man, insisting on trying to influence those much more cunning and physically capable than he," he wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

We are dead, she thought, and it was not even tinged with emotion.

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

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