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Example sentences for "tinny"

Lexicographically close words:
tinned; tinner; tinners; tinning; tinnitus; tinos; tinplate; tins; tinsel; tinseled
  1. Now amid the popping of the rifles and the tinny whanging of the piano Dutch draws forth a final package.

  2. Later the music will let out a tinny blaze of sound.

  3. It had an unusually tinny sound, due to fact that it made its way through the interstices of a closed visor.

  4. The crowd hushed as the girl parted the curtains and stepped out onto the middle of the floor, to a fanfare of tinny music.

  5. From the direction of "The Yellow Lantern" came a hilarious uproar, subdued somewhat by the distance, out of which arose the strident notes of a tinny piano beating blatantly the measure of a turkey trot.

  6. So Joe had to watch his instruments and listen to the tinny voice behind him and steer the ship against accidental wobblings as the Earth fell away behind him.

  7. There was dead silence in the ship, save for a small, tinny voice in Joe's headphones.

  8. The tinny voice behind his head, its timbre changed by the weighting of its diaphragm, said: "All readings check within accuracy of instruments.

  9. If an attempt is made to analyse the music, you may discover sounds sharp as those of the fife, deep and hollow as drum-beats, sonorous and acrid, tinny and mellow.

  10. Boyd here," a tinny voice from the phone said.

  11. If this be true, thou little tinny page, This thing thou tellest to me, Then all the land in Bucklesfordbery I freely will give to thee.

  12. But if it be a ly, thou little tinny page, This thing thou tellest to me, On the hyest tree in Bucklesfordbery Then hanged shalt thou be.

  13. If this be true, thou little tinny page, This thing thou tellest to mee, Then all the land in Bucklesfordbery I freely will give to thee.

  14. But if it be a ly, thou little tinny page, 45 This thing thou tellest to me, On the hyest tree in Bucklesfordbery There hanged shalt thou be.

  15. Only the tall red grain-elevator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass.

  16. Although the helmet restricted his peripheral vision, he still could hear clearly through headphones miked on the outside, although they did make the din of the hangar sound tinny and artificial.

  17. He still remembered the black-hatted Orthodox prelates and the incense and the tinny balalaikas and all the counts and countesses drunk and dancing and crying at the same time.

  18. A tinny voice said with formal cordiality that he did, indeed.

  19. The tinny voice said hastily that Lockley should speak to the general himself.

  20. Then a tinny voice, singularly calm and astonished at the same time: "Why--yes!

  21. The tinny voice said: "We just developed a thing to refine metals in situ.

  22. Even little Trotty shrilled out her tinny treble, without knowing in the least what the joke was.

  23. The day of weighing out pepper and salt was over; never again would the tinny jangle of the accursed bell smite his ears.

  24. Starch was one of the earliest materials used for sizing paper, and is used considerably in addition to other materials, as it adds a hard, tinny character desired by the trade on certain grades.

  25. The addition of sizing tends to increase the strength of paper, owing to its adhesive properties, but if liberally used it detracts from the mellowness and gives the sheet a tinny “character.

  26. In the utmost quiet did Brook and Lloyd stand there listening to the tinny voice.

  27. Just as Brook finished his thoughts to Lloyd, there was a tinny and hoarse voice come from behind the door.

  28. In a booming, but tinny sounding voice, the guard spoke to the strangers and Empal.

  29. Only far in the background there could be heard the tinny sound of hand-to-hand sword fighting.

  30. He found that he was feverish, and he mentioned it when the tinny voices talked urgently to him.

  31. Meanwhile--The tinny voices instructed him in what he was to say for them to record and broadcast to all the world in his honor.

  32. Tinny voices assured him that his launching had gone well.

  33. That's only a tinny sort of glitter just now, but you should see the moon rise over it.

  34. He heard a long-drawn strain of tipsy song, the tinny thread of sound of a mouth-organ, and then a clock striking three.

  35. The tinny whispering of Stryker's voice in the vaultlike quiet struck him with the frightening feeling that he had gone mad.

  36. His tinny murmur took on a puzzled sound.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tinny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acute; base; brass; brassy; brazen; bronze; cheap; cheesy; coarse; common; copper; cracked; dry; gilt; gold; golden; gruff; guttural; harsh; hoarse; husky; inferior; iron; irregular; lead; leaden; mean; mercurial; metallic; nickel; paltry; pewter; poor; punk; quicksilver; ragged; raucous; rough; rude; seedy; shabby; silver; silvery; steel; steely; stertorous; strangled; tacky; tawdry; thick; throaty; tin; tinny