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How to use tint in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, contraction

Tint means a slight coloring. Example: “Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.”

Examples of tint by meaning

nounA color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

  • Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

nounA vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.

  • About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36
  • Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.2021, Carol Park, Memoir of a Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, and Riots

verbTo shade, to color.

  • To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

More sentences with tint

  • The deflorate rose-bushes take on a brownish tint.From the entry deflorate
  • She had a little southern accent that tinted her Ghanaian one.2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 6. From the entry Ghanaian
  • Pepper’s world was way more colorful, as if viewed through Lennon’s new tinted wireframe “tea-shade” glasses.2015, Hal Rubenstein, “We Loved You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah: The Beatles Make Over the World, 1965”, in The Looks of Love: 50 Moments in Fashion…. From the entry tea-shade
  • The valley floor is so level the slow-flowing current is often tinted brown with accumulated tannins.2014 September 24, George Ellison, “Nature Journal: Directions to an autumn paradise in WNC”, in The Asheville Citizen-Times, retrieved 01…. From the entry wildflowering
  • Here, besuited men with earpieces ushered us into a black Mercedes with tinted windows.2010, Andrew Mueller, Douglas A. Martin, I Wouldn't Start from Here. From the entry besuited
  • Films could also be tinted and toned, resulting in color duochromes.2010, Richard Misek, Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color, page 21. From the entry duochrome
  • A silver sedan with tinted windows drove by me, then slowed down for no apparent reason.2009, Paul Bacon, Bad Cop: New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All, Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, pages 81–82. From the entry blingmobile
  • The windows must have been tinted, because he could not see inside the van, either.2007, P. T. Deutermann, Hunting Season: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN. From the entry make
  • The characteristic qualities of Iga ware are scorching (koge), glaze drips, and reddish tints.2002, Ryōji Kuroda, Takeshi Murayama, Classic Stoneware of Japan: Shino and Oribe, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry Iga ware
  • His deflector screens had shot up—he was an emotional escape vehicle, complete with tinted windows.1998, Linda Jaivin, Rock 'n' Roll Babes from Outer Space, page 243. From the entry batmobile
  • I rubbed the light, tinted cream on my cheekies and down my nose.1994, Sassy, page 38. From the entry cheekie
  • LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1, page 286. From the entry reader
  • Positive colors may be underpainted with shaded tints of the full color.1939, John Sloan, “Painting”, in Gist of Art, New York, N.Y.: American Artists Group, Inc., page 136. From the entry underpaint
  • Before us lay the autumn tinted woods glimmering in gold, purple, green, and cerise.1927, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, E.P. Dutton & Co., page 67. From the entry cerise
  • Instead of gaudy coloring, there is a harmony of subdued tints.1911, Luigi Bogliolo, The Los Angeles Daily Times, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, page 2. From the entry overexcess
  • I have one other idea: we tint it.2025 October 26, Rich Rinaldi, “The Skids in the Hall” (8:52 from the start), in Bob's Burgers, season 16, episode 4, spoken by Gretchen…. From the entry frost-stache
  • His windows were tinted so I couldn't see anything in his car while following him to his house.2019 September 8, Liv Reshelle, A Haitian Thug Stole My Heart: Caught By a Boss, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry swanger
  • And although it bore a tinted greenish coating, it was not enough to mar the inscription: CHANCE BROTHERS & COMPANY, Ltd.2014, Glenn M. Cosh, “Flashback”, in The Green Flash, Zest Publishing, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry constructioner
  • It's an E-Class, sleek and black with tinted windows.2013, M. Leighton, Everything for Us, Berkley, →ISBN. From the entry douchenozzle
  • Use with eyeshadow for a vibrant tint.2012, Lorie Bennett, Little Secrets, page 20. From the entry glowy
  • These include enamels, flints, tints, leatherettes, and many others.1991, “Paperboard”, in F. A. Paine, editor, The Packaging User’s Handbook, Glasgow: Blackie Academic & Professional, Chapman & Hall…. From the entry leatherette
  • Does she wear glasses with fashionable frames, has she had her lids lifted, does she streak or tint?1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye. From the entry buffer zone
  • Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow. From the entry wen
  • They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC. From the entry century
  • And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her own harmonics!1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58. From the entry getaway
  • Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?1924, Herman Melville, chapter 17, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.. From the entry blendingly
  • Faces, flesh tints flung like sprays of cherry blossoms.1918, Carl Sandburg, “Band Concert”, in Cornhuskers, page 24. From the entry giggler
  • Unlike other colourwork, in which a single hue is either tinted in lighter tones or shaded into darker tones, verdaille can involve many different hues.2012 June 27, Sheila Singhal, “Elephant No. 269: Verdaille”, in An Elephant a Day. From the entry verdaille
  • Luminous silver gray eyes outlined in sooty lashes; a pert retroussé nose and faintly carmine tinted lips, slightly full, finished the oval face.2004, Anita-Louise Johnson, chapter 1, in Faithful, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry retroussé
  • His hair is black and well greased, with individual strands of gray, and he wears wire-rimmed bifocals with a subtle brownish tint.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 183. From the entry bifocal
  • To tint coconut, just shake it in a jar with much-diluted food coloring until the shreds pick up the shade you want.1961 January 29, Pat Williams, “Family Pantry: Pots of Green and Confetti Coconut Make Kitchens and Cooking Fun”, in Sunday Courier and…. From the entry coco-nutty
  • It was hard to imagine that the broken thing had once been new; that those withered, waxen cheeks had been fresh and tinted.1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 28, in Gormenghast, Penguin, published 1969, page 185. From the entry waxen
  • Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.1920, H. P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs. From the entry fleecy
  • Here and there the bogland showed a darker tint, and at his feet, cupped out in the smooth greystone, lay a sheet of water.1919, H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile, Mufti. From the entry greystone
  • His tinted glasses were not really opaque, but of a blue kind common enough, nor were the eyes behind them shifty, but regarded me steadily.1914, G. K. Chesterton, “The Head of Cæsar”, in The Wisdom of Father Brown, London: Cassell, published 1928, page 149. From the entry shifty
  • It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter.1913, David Paul Gooding, chapter V, in Picturesque New Zealand. From the entry sinter

Meaning of tint

  1. noun A slight coloring.
  2. noun A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade).
  3. noun A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

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Questions about tint in a sentence

How do you use tint in a sentence?
Tint is used as a noun, verb and contraction. For example: “Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.”
What is a short sentence with tint?
“Use with eyeshadow for a vibrant tint.”
What does tint mean?
Tint means a slight coloring.

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