How to use tinge in a sentence

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• It was small and bumpy, with a tinge of orange.From the entry with
• Her face had a bluish tinge.From the entry -ish
• The slow flutter of his vibrato gives a melancholy tinge to the proceedings.2014, Donna Soto-Morettini, Popular Singing and Style, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 221. From the entry give
• Their gray fur has a reddish tinge with whitish frosted tips, hence the name "hoary."2011, Terence Barrow, More Incredible Hawaii, →ISBN. From the entry frosted tips
• The bruise on my cheek had ripened into an underlying violet with an alienish green tinge.2007, Nancy Bush, Electric Blue, page 212. From the entry alienish
• It tinges all its length with scarlet stains and mauve globules of burning dew.2003, Kenneth Grant, Gamaliel The Diary of a Vampire, page 27. From the entry moon flood
• This new sense of self, exhilarating as it was, also carries a bittersweet tinge for most members.1998, Irvin D. Yalom, The Yalom Reader. From the entry undust
• " Hearing a slight tinge of uncertainty in his voice, I pressed.1995, Sharon Zukowski, Leap of Faith, page 199. From the entry Feebie
• Since they all had a slightly yellow tinge to their skin, he assumed they were munitions workers.1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 119. From the entry munitionette
• In cold weather rosaceous cheeks often tend to become mauvish and take on a cyanotic tinge.1976, Ronald Marks, Common facial dermatoses, page 9. From the entry cyanotic
• There is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards.1937, George Orwell, chapter 7, in The Road to Wigan Pier. From the entry lounge lizard
• They are small nocturnal forms with a lichenous growth which often gives a greenish tinge to their gray hair.1933, Alfred Sherwood Romer, chapter 9, in Man and the Vertebrates, 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, published 1937, page 206. From the entry lichenous
• “A tinge of Jewish blood is not a bad thing.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 125. From the entry leaven
• Her short, spiky hair now had a green tinge and her complexion, once a soft peaches and cream hue, was now a cream-cheesy colour.2010, Deirdre O’Brien, The Adventures of Monkey and Me, Drogheda: Choice Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, page 24. From the entry cream-cheesy
• The first scenes, which take place in a minitheater that keeps shrinking, will be painful for anyone with even a tinge of claustrophobia.2007 June 16, Ben Brantley, “An Artist’s Look Back at Her Life, Now Ended”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2020. From the entry claustrophobia
• The white flowers have purple veins on the lower three petals and a purple tinge on the back of the uppermost petals.2003, Peter White, Wildflowers of the Smokies, page 64. From the entry Canadian violet
• The hostility Garrus nurtures for the ineffective Citadel Security Services (C-Sec) bureaucracy has an oedipal tinge since his father, Castis Vakarian, is an exemplary by-the-books C-Sec officer.2023, Jerome Winter, “"There Is No War, There Is Only Harvest": Diplomatic Realpolitik and Combat Gameplay in Mass Effect”, in BioWare's…. From the entry oedipal
• The extraordinary thing about this nostalgie de la boue is that it is undertaken with a humorous self-consciousness and without a tinge of religious abjection or mortification.2002, Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry nostalgie de la boue
• Birmingham and Montgomery locked horns in this city and Nashville and Atlanta tossed the sweet tinge of sweetfulness into the hearts of the faithful in the Georgia capital.1905 April 19, The Birmingham News, volume XVIII, number 32, Birmingham, Ala., page 13. From the entry sweetfulness
• She made love—if the fullblown rortiness of that pretty disgusting act anywhere and anytime was love—just like a guy would want it but with a tinge of femininity thrown in.2015, Bill Reed, Tasker Tusker Tasker (The Inspector Charles Ekanayake), →ISBN. From the entry rortiness
• Her reactions to the X-rays were very severe, and for the first three or four days after treatment her skin had a positively gray tinge, her face puffing out doughily.1998, Charlotte Vale Allen, Love Life, page 251. From the entry doughily
• During the last few years he has introduced such hybrid teas as the apricot-coloured Fairy Dancers, Gay Gordons, red and yellow, and Northern Lights, creamy yellow with tinges of pink.1974, Amateur Gardening - Volume 91, page 45. From the entry Gay Gordons

Meaning of tinge

1. noun A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.
2. noun The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.
3. noun A draper's or clothier's markup.

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How do you use tinge in a sentence?

Tinge is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It was small and bumpy, with a tinge of orange.”

What is a short sentence with tinge?

“Her face had a bluish tinge.”

What does tinge mean?

Tinge means a small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.