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with a slight amount(If an amount of what is not clear from context, it is typically of color.)
- I could hear a tinge of regret in his voice.
tinge = slight amount
- The sky was a beautiful blue with just a tinge of pink where the sun was rising.
- More even than of strength, he gave an impression of confidence and of an understanding tinged by irony.George Orwell -- 1984
- His red hair was cut so short it was just a tinge of rust creeping out of his cap.Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed
- His skin was fair and his hair a light brown, though in the sun it seemed to have a reddish tinge that was surely Annie's.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- Her jaws were open and from between them erupted a great tongue of flame, bright yellow and tinged with blue.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- MARTHA: (A pause; then with the greatest disbelief possible, tinged with hysteria) What did you just say to me?Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The lake looked black, but there was a tinge of red to it.Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
- She began to slight that love, so that it seemed to have been tinged with sentimental habit from the first.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
- His eyes were unnatural bright, his breathing short and fast and difficult, and what he coughed up was tinged with bright red blood.Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
- He said that it seemed to have a greenish sort of effect as if there were a greenish tinge in the shadows of the tall bedposts that framed her body.Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
- It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in Marius, and with modesty in Cosette.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- But whatever he accomplished, whatever joy he felt, it was always tinged with the memory of his beautiful little sister and the horror of her fate.Karen Levine -- Hana's Suitcase
- "You could have called us and let us know that," Ben says, his voice tinged with frustration.John Green -- Paper Towns
- His voice seemed suddenly tinged with worry.Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- The small white bird tinged in pink dives down, buries her claws in my chest, and tries to keep me afloat.Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- When he spoke, it was with a tinge of guile and tenderness.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Then the slightly huffy note dropped, a tinge almost of awe coloured her thoughts.John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
- The sun is sinking farther beyond the clouds, and the bay is a hard gray, just barely tinged with green.Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
- One and the same tongue first stung me, so that it tinged both my cheeks, and then supplied the medicine to me.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
tinge = slight amount
tinged = with a slight amount
tinge = a slight amount
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