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Example sentences for "tinged"

Lexicographically close words:
tined; tines; tinfoil; ting; tinge; tingeing; tinges; tinging; tingle; tingled
  1. Is it not one of admiration, tinged with wonder at such a prodigal display of thematic and technical invention?

  2. Karasowski who saw some of them says they were tinged with melancholy.

  3. This blue color can also be extracted by pulverizing a quantity of the dried plants, and pouring water over them, the water soon becoming tinged with a decided blue.

  4. The two outer circles are much alike, but the three outermost leaves are slightly narrower and strongly tinged with red on the back, completely concealing the three inner ones before the flower expands.

  5. Yet so real were his imaginings to the young man, so reactionary seemed even the thought of a Novel of Warning, that an unmistakable defiance had tinged his voice as he spoke.

  6. The girl too, looked pleased; her eyes were shining, a pretty color tinged her young cheek.

  7. And now, in the same moment, a little color tinged the girl's cheek, beneath her veil, and the young man turned rather pale.

  8. His speech also, notwithstanding the advantages of an excellent education, was tinged with the accent of the province in which he then found himself.

  9. The beautiful hills of Savoy, tinged with the melancholy tints of autumn, were a fit setting for the meeting with the fair invalid.

  10. A slight blush tinged her pale cheeks at my approach.

  11. While at sunset, when the last rays tinged the dancing waves with ruddy glory, the children on the strand would be shown the Flying Dutchman's blood-red sail.

  12. His skin was tinged with the ruddy hue of outdoor life.

  13. Her voice became tinged with melancholy and Hennessey changed the subject, taking his seat in one of the armchairs that stood on either side of the fireplace.

  14. Her face was still tinged with pink, but her lips were discoloured and her body was deathly pale.

  15. The water, tinged with the yellow colour of the soil, leaves a mark behind on the stone sides, which naturally becomes very visible during the dry season.

  16. We had just climbed up some steep basalt rock and reached an open spot, when the first rays of the sun tinged the eastern sky.

  17. Her breasts are not like young roes that feed among the lilies, but ivory hemispheres threaded with purple fire and tinged with sunset's tawny gold.

  18. Revolting crimes increase and sexuality is tinged with the infamy of the Orient.

  19. Boats at sea hung out their crimson cressets, flickering in long lines on the bay; and larger craft moved slowly with rows of lamps defining their curves; while the full moon shed over all her 'vitreous pour, just tinged with blue.

  20. How much they tinged his fancy we cannot say.

  21. Shaw's sketch is extraordinarily clever; but it is tinged with this unmilitary notion of an inevitable conquest; and this we must remember when we come to those larger canvases on which he painted his more serious heroes.

  22. John Bull's Other Island represents a realism somewhat more tinged with the later transcendentalism of its author.

  23. A solution of spermaceti in sulphuric æther, tinged with alkanet root, which solidifies at 50° F.

  24. It is probable that the Germans tinged it with those plants which were sent to Rome for dyeing the hair[238]; and according to the modern manner of speaking, it was more properly a kind of pomade than soap.

  25. The tinged glasses come around with bright straws, and they tipple.

  26. Wine from the royal vats of Ispahan and Shiraz, in bottles of tinged shell, and lily-shaped cups of silver, and flagons and tankards of solid gold.

  27. The men staggered on in the uncanny light which tinged even the smoke.

  28. He lived wholly within himself, his mental reactions tinged with morose scorn.

  29. This abstraction and mutual care for each other's wants tinged their conduct with romantic interest.

  30. Though Oswald's mind is not excessively tinged with the speculative or ethical, he finds much of interest in the talk of this unique guide.

  31. Though his controlling aspirations, in their uncurbed impetuosity and youthful conceit, were little consciously tinged with the higher sentiments of ethical teaching, yet Christian principles were entitled to unquestioned homage.

  32. In short, her philosophy was that of the modern, orthodox American, tinged by a somewhat commercialized Sunday school tradition of an earlier day, and highly approved by the censors of the movies.

  33. Beside Velasquez, as Justi says, the colouring of Titian seems conventional, that of Rembrandt fantastic, and that of Rubens is tinged with something which is not natural.

  34. And the youngest representative of this group tinged with religious and romantic feelings is Marie Spartali-Stillman, who lives in Rome and paints as a rule pictures from Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch, after the fashion of Rossetti.

  35. His little green eyes, that might have been pierced with a gimlet, flashed beneath arches faintly tinged with red in the place of eyebrows.

  36. Melancholy, tinged her features with the sweetness of resignation and the pallor of scorned love.

  37. One reads with amusement tinged with pity, of Carlyle's sleepless nights and cold, terror-fraught anticipations of his Lord Rector's speech.

  38. Then soon it was discovered that beneath the mild and gentle ripple of his speech ran a deep current of earnest truth, tinged with subtle wit.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tinged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.