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Example sentences for "tinge"

Lexicographically close words:
tine; tined; tines; tinfoil; ting; tinged; tingeing; tinges; tinging; tingle
  1. They are three in number, grayish in color with a greenish tinge and finely spotted over the whole surface with dark brown and lavender.

  2. This is a slightly larger species than the preceding and is grayish above and paler below, with little or no tinge of brownish or yellow.

  3. A handsome species, greenish above, with a coppery tinge and shading into reddish brown on the tail; under parts buffy, throat metallic green, and a broad white streak behind the eye.

  4. It was high tide, and all the bay was silvery with a tinge of color from the glowing sky.

  5. She was beautiful, with regular features, a little pale, but with a tinge of natural color, vivacious eyes, and an easy motion that displayed to advantage the graces of her small but elegant figure.

  6. Some great clouds drifted high in the air: the summits of the Breithorn, the Lyscamm, and their companions, lay cold and white; but the snow down their sides had a tinge of pink.

  7. The mellow dubious light that prevailed just served to tinge with illusive colors the softened features of the scenery.

  8. Deringham slightly accentuated part of the sentence, and again a faint tinge of colour crept into the face of the girl and vindictiveness into her eyes, for she understood him.

  9. The lady beside her nodded, though there was a little pink tinge in her cheeks.

  10. A tinge of carmine flickered into the cheek of his companion and faded swiftly again.

  11. The darker feathers have a glossy bluish tinge on the black.

  12. The great hornet, with its tinge of reddish orange, comes through the garden sometimes with a heavy buzz, distinguishable in a moment from the sound of any other insect.

  13. Her hair was soft and brown, and there was a golden tinge in it that was greatly admired.

  14. His face was less thin and sharp, and there was a tinge of healthy colour in his cheeks; his eyes, too, were less sunken and hollow, and had lost their melancholy expression.

  15. She was quite unconscious of the sombre tinge that had stolen over Cyril's thoughts.

  16. There was certainly a tinge of Bohemianism in Audrey's nature.

  17. Its hue has a slight tinge of gold, and my limbs, when I behold them through its medium, look tawny.

  18. The rooms seemed never to have been painted; at all events, the walls and panels, as well as the huge crossbeams, had a venerable and most dismal tinge of brown.

  19. And every likeness of her has just that tinge of melancholy which lies at the bottom of all things that are truly happy, or truly beautiful.

  20. In fact, there had always been a tinge of self-satisfaction about David which he seriously disliked, and for which very reason he had once sent him back to the boats to learn humility.

  21. The colour varies between rufescent grey, or greyish-rufous, or white (with a brown tinge showing through from below) and silvery grey.

  22. As I think of these slight sketches, I wonder if they will have to others a tinge of sadness; but I have seldom spent an afternoon so full of pleasure and fresh and delighted consciousness of the possibilities of rural life.

  23. Here and there a tinge of red shone out on the backs of the books that stood close together in the high cases.

  24. On the other hand, the copious use of such ornament has the disadvantage that it sometimes gives a tinge of conventionality to his work.

  25. The colour is usually clove-brown, but rarely it has a violet tinge (on this account the mineral was named yanolite, meaning violet stone, by J.

  26. It gives a rich tinge to all objects, even to those of sombre lines, yet without changing the lines.

  27. He saw a tinge of warmer color creep into the girl's cheeks.

  28. Becky had a faint tinge of colour in her face now, like a China rose washed in the rain; her dark eyes looked brighter, and when she smiled, something that would soon be a dimple showed in her cheek.

  29. In a nature that is melancholy a tinge of superstition is appropriate, and it is hardly surprising if Clive saw in the successive chance a proof that he was not meant as yet to perish by self-slaughter.

  30. At the height of summer all burns and flares on this limitless prairie, then of a ruddy gold; but in September a green tinge begins to suffuse the ocean of herbage, which dies away in the pink and mauve and vivid blue of the fine sunsets.

  31. Stretching out her supple, delicate form, whose silken feathers of dull green here and there assumed a pinky tinge in the sunlight, she took hold of the fig with her claws, then ripped it open with her beak.

  32. I don't like him the worse for having a tinge of proper pride, especially in the circumstances in which he is placed.

  33. Even Voltaire had some tinge of national prejudice, as well as other men.

  34. There was a slight tinge of sarcasm in his tone as he glanced toward the desolate parade ground of the presidio and the open unguarded gate.

  35. Some of them were not without a tinge of superstition.

  36. My stock of sunshine is so infinitely increased by partaking of yours, that even when a cloud flits by, I incomparably prefer its gloom to the sullen, leaden tinge that used to overspread my sky.

  37. In the first tinge of gray they crouched under the high bank overhung by the weeds, to wait.

  38. The forest paled with the first tinge of dawn.

  39. Miss Vivian came in, chilled from her motor drive and with that rather pinky tinge on her aquiline nose which generally forecasted a troubled morning.

  40. Grace will be able to tell us," said Miss Delmege, not without a tinge of acrimony in her voice.

  41. A tinge of colour crept into Miss Jones's face.

  42. Miss Delmege greeted her with an air of admiring wonder, suffused by a tinge of respectful pity, and ventured to hope that Sir Piers Vivian was better.

  43. The freshness of the clean, scarcely-dried, kalsomine, the faint tinge of smoke from the bit of fire, the delicious soapy cleanliness and a wholesome whiff of barley broth floated out into the dusty hallway to the little person on the stairs.

  44. This lad may be traced in Poquelin, a son of the Halles, and again in Beaumarchais; for gaminerie is a tinge of the Gallic temper.

  45. Jean Prouvaire was of an even softer tinge than Combeferre; he was called "Jehan," through that little momentary fantasy which was blended with the powerful and profound movement from which issued the study of the Middle Ages, so essential.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tinge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admixture; affect; allegory; allusion; assumption; atom; bedaub; bend; besmear; bias; breathe; brew; calcimine; cast; coat; color; coloration; coloring; complexion; connotation; cover; dash; daub; dip; dispose; dredge; dye; emblazon; enamel; face; flavor; fresco; gild; glaze; gloss; grain; hint; hue; idea; illuminate; imbrue; imbue; implication; import; impregnate; incline; induce; inference; infiltrate; influence; infuse; infusion; ingrain; inkling; innuendo; instill; intimation; key; lacquer; lead; leaven; lick; look; meaning; modicum; move; nuance; overtone; paint; pallor; penetrate; permeate; persuade; pervade; pigment; predispose; presumption; presupposition; prime; prompt; saturate; sauce; scintilla; season; seasoning; shade; shadow; shellac; sip; smack; smattering; smear; smell; soupcon; spark; speck; spice; sprinkling; stain; steep; stipple; stray; suffuse; suggestion; sup; supposition; suspicion; sway; symbolism; taint; tang; taste; temper; tempering; thought; tincture; tinge; tint; tone; touch; trace; transfuse; twang; undercurrent; undertone; varnish; vein; vestige; wash; whiff; whisper; whitewash; work