Example sentences for: tinged

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

  • It's conceivable, of course, that Gore was warming up for more explicit and racially tinged use of Horton's story later in the primary fight.

  • Bailey's presentation is tinged by an underlying suggestion of disapproval of those who would dictate the way the language should be used.

  • 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.)

  • And it should remind us all that flimsy notions of the minority's eternally dual identity, whether tinged with xenophobia or candied with race pride, in the end amount to just so much double talk.

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


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