Example sentences for: tinker

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

  • Colford writes in his biography that Howard has elevated "the final chapter in his war with NBC" to the "myth of the inventive radio personality clashing with the stuffed shirts of a mighty network," but goes on to record events that sound a lot like stuffed shirts clashing with Stern: Bob Rukeyser, NBC's director of corporate communications at the time, said that he alerted Grant Tinker, then chairman of NBC, to Stern's material, and that Tinker decided Stern had to go.

  • But--afraid of spending for the underclass--a Democratic Congress might find it easier to tinker with regulations to prevent states from cutting welfare recipients off at the end of their supposed time limits.

  • Harrer was not the Dalai Lama's only partner in play (for instance, it was someone else who helped him tinker with old cars).

  • According to Tinker, “their main functions are to remind us in a good-humored way that we all are mortal, and to poke fun at friends and attack public officials.

  • The perception of declining fan interest causes owners to tinker with baseball traditions from time to time, mostly in the hopes of attracting more fans.


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