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Example sentences for "dinky"

Lexicographically close words:
dining; diningroom; dink; dinkey; dinks; dinna; dinnae; dinnah; dinned; dinneh
  1. That's what I get by havin' this dinky bar on my shoulders.

  2. For the dinky little picture under the cameo is a dead ringer for the one Claire had shown us in the silver frame.

  3. Course, that dinky tin pan they was in don't land flat.

  4. There was a bunch of 'em, mostly young girls all togged out in pink and white, drivin' dinky Shetlands in wicker carts covered with daisies and ribbons.

  5. So that was what I was doin' at quarter of eight that night, in my open face vest and dinky little tuxedo, hustlin' along 42d-st.

  6. It was a big, old, slate roofed baracks, with jigsaw work on the eaves, and a lot of dinky towers frescoed with lightnin' rods.

  7. What he don't know about standing up in a corner and hopping over a cane and speaking for grub and waltzing on his front feet and playing 'possum, and all that kind o' dinky work, would fill a big book.

  8. About half a dozen of their friends traipsed along with them, and took one of the tables in the same parlor and went at a dinky game of $20 limit.

  9. You can't tell me that you are going to build a railroad into Greenfield's town just to get a dinky little power plant in your own district.

  10. No more of the dinky trafficking of the Retailer.

  11. After the Pater had earned his Shaft in the Cemetery, Elam became the Loud Noise around a dinky Manufacturing Plant down by the Yards.

  12. If anybody has to be quartered in a dinky to make room, he's the chap, all right.

  13. Herb can keep him in the dinky towing behind, and stand it.

  14. The English dress shirt has such a dinky little bosom on it that by rights you cannot refer to it as a bosom at all; it comes nearer to being what women used to call a guimpe.

  15. And the speed he gets out of that dinky little roadster is amazin'.

  16. As it was we could hang up all night at some dinky junction or wait over until next morning.

  17. He's wearin' a dinky gold-braided cap, baggy trousers, and he carries a long pipe in one hand.

  18. He just makes things snug and then goes below and starts pokin' about in his dinky little cabin.

  19. So, after I've done the polite handshake, and had a word with Sadie on the fly, I digs out my exercise uniform and makes a sneak down into their dinky little gym.

  20. We may be surprised when we see that same dinky powerboat.

  21. Seems like life has got some bright spots in the framework arter all, an' ain't jest a dinky fogbelt like I sometimes find myself b'lievin'.

  22. You've not forgotten your dinky tea-porch?

  23. And if the dinky shoulder straps held it was all right; but if one of 'em broke there'd sure be some hurry call for four yards of burlap to do her up in.

  24. Dinky business for me, dear old thing," he said.

  25. Bones produced a dinky little pocket-book from his waistcoat and read his notes, or, rather, attempted to read his notes.

  26. She has one of those dinky bonnets, dear old thing, that makes you feel awfully braced with life.

  27. What do you let the girl chop the toast up into these dinky little chunks for?

  28. Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind.

  29. Oh, it's just a little dinky affair," laughed the traveller.

  30. As the "little dinky affair" became a competitor of increasing strength in the grain trade the efforts of a section of the grain men, particularly the elevator interests, to discredit it among the farmers became more and more marked.

  31. I am Mother Betty, turned into a dinky bird for your sakes, and have flown up the witch's stairs!

  32. Padstow maid to herself; and what more she would have said is not known, for at that moment the Wise Woman took the tiny crystal bottle out of her hand and put it into the box beside the dinky person within.

  33. Gerna kept on the Shoes till the tide was down to Piskey Goog, when she took them off and put them into her underskirt pocket with the dinky Lantern.

  34. As it was nowhere to be found, nor the wee Shoes, nor the dinky Lantern, she came to the conclusion that it must be true.

  35. But Joan said she believed it was something more than that, if there was any meaning in the words of the song the dinky old woman in the bal-bonnet had sung.

  36. I don't believe I should ever have got up that great cliff but for those dinky Shoes,' she added when she had told all; 'nor over Pentire Glaze.

  37. Great-Grannie was never vexed with me before that Dinky Man wanted to make me rich with his golden pieces.

  38. Joan said she might, but was afraid it was too heavy for a dinky little maid like her to carry.

  39. A very good thing I gave you those dinky Shoes this morning.

  40. So I sends for James along before dinner time and I says: "Where is my dinky clothes to eat dinner in?

  41. But they never saw the Piskeys, for the Dinky Men, as Phillida called them, were very shy, and did not often let themselves be seen by human eyes.

  42. I am so disappointed, Grannie; I did so hope you could afford just a dinky cake.

  43. Piskeys laughed too, and one of the Dinky Men turned head over heels on the patchwork quilt out of sheer delight that the child was so pleased with her beautiful dream-cake and the little dream-bird.

  44. Grannie's tales of the long ago were of absorbing interest to the child, who almost forgot that the Dinky Men were coming to order her dreams that night.

  45. I wonder if the Dinky Men like listening to the star-bells' music?

  46. Yes,' answered the Piskey, 'and a dinky Little Bargeman brought me from Dozmare Pool to Trebetherick that you might answer my question.

  47. And Phillida reluctantly dreamt as the Dinky Man ordered, and in her dream she saw herself sitting at the table facing her grandmother, who was munching a bit of the cake and smacking her withered old lips.

  48. I saw a dinky little fellow not much bigger than your thumb go in through the keyhole just now.

  49. The strongest card we have up our sleeve is the fake reputation of Dinky Bradford, and what we must do is to make up the best plan to play it.

  50. Dinky Bradford said he was goin' to take him to Africa; but whether he did or not I can't say.

  51. By the way, your enormous luggage is here--consisting of one dinky trunk and a sword done up in chamois skin.

  52. Come in, Phil," he called out; "and look at the dinky chair somebody sent me!


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dinky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anal; cramped; dinky; dispensable; exiguous; immaterial; inappreciable; inconsequential; inconsiderable; inferior; insignificant; irrelevant; lesser; limited; little; minor; minute; neat; negligible; nonessential; petite; petty; piddling; poky; puny; secondary; shipshape; short; sleek; slick; slight; small; smart; snug; spruce; technical; tidy; tight; trig; trim; unessential; unimpressive