Example sentences for: tinged

How can you use “tinged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So it was with some relief tinged with disappointment that I found Lemann veers off and avoids them.

  • A piece tinged with Schadenfreude says that Starbucks may be growing too fast.

  • "Even when the catharsis we yearn for arrives, it's tinged with restraint," says Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Glieberman.

  • Critics declare Bonnard's landscapes, nudes, and self-portraits more than dated Impressionism, deeming them "[s]ome of the most extraordinary paintings of his quickly ending century" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). They say that his dreamlike images show a "Proustian" concern with the mechanics of perception and that his later nudes are "tinged with necrophilia" (Francine Prose, the Wall Street Journal ). (MoMA's site serves up a slew of paintings.)

  • Worse, his snooty righteousness is tinged with opportunism: He's willing to make deals with superiors in return for promotions.


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