Sample Sentences for
tinged
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    Now as came near, it was tinged with a flickering sparkle of man colours at the surface, reflected and splintered from the wavering light of his torch.  (source)
    tinged = slightly colored
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    His red hair was cut so short it was just a tinge of rust creeping out of his cap.  (source)
    tinge = a slight amount
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    In that moment they were tinged with wonder, and he looked, despite his stubble, boylike.†  (source)
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    Suddenly, the living room was tinged with kaleidoscopic light.†  (source)
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    She knew what he had been thinking and felt a tinge of amusement at how young he seemed.†  (source)
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    She looked scared, her chest heaving, her face reddening, with tinges of gray skirting the edges.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    Cal meets my eyes, a silver blush tingeing his cheeks.†  (source)
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    Though I had left the island eight years before, my memories of prison were still fresh and untinged by nostalgia.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untinged means not and reverses the meaning of tinged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Red-tinged froth bubbling at his nostrils.†  (source)
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    My teeth are chattering in my head, the tips of my fingers are white with a tinge of blue.†  (source)
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    Tinges of brown.†  (source)
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    This we have seen done by England, our old rival and enemy; and by France, strangely coupled with her against us, under the influence of the Anglicism strongly tinging the policy of her present prime minister, Guizot.†  (source)
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