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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of tinge.
Examples
“More than once that night I awoke to hear his "tinging" serenade upon the consecrated air of the piney woods.”
“tinging' sound of a bell, and a whisper to my ear saying, "He will be your husband," - all of these happening in a split second.”
“ On the bridal dais, a guest taps a spoon against a glass; the other guests pick up the signal, and tap their glasses until the tinging reaches a crescendo and is extinguished by a kiss from the newly minted Mr. and Mrs. A breeze faints against the back of my legs, and tipples the hem of my dress.”
““Tell me you love me,” she said again, but this time with a hint of panic tinging her voice.”
“The orange light of sundown washed the orchids lining the atrium in woven bamboo baskets, gently tinging the colors of their blooms—blush cymbidiums, mauve Vartuglands, creamy white moths.”
“The xylophone tinging of the grate told me to turn right.”
“We fixed our eyes on the flowered shirt of a Grand Lido bellman and followed the sound of our rolling luggage through a bar until the tinging of a steel-drum band drowned out all other noise.”
“No way to reverse it? demanded Isabelle, panic tinging her voice.”
Simon & Schuster: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
“The sun itself isn't much to look at; far lovelier, she thinks, are the colors tinging the clouds.”
“Leviathan; his forehead was divided into streaks of green & purple like those on a tygers forehead: soon we saw his mouth & red gills hang just above the raging foam tinging the black deep with beams of blood, advancing toward us with all the fury of a spiritual existence.”
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Snowplows and Dough-troughs
A list of words whose "halves" look like they should rhyme, but don't, beginning with snowplow and dough-trough.
I'm going to need help finding terms to add to this list - any assistan...snowplow, dough-trough, tinging, cootfoot, bloodwood, know-how, lowbrow, downthrown, fierier, homecome, overcover, knowhow and 6 more...
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