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  • verb Present participle of tink.

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Examples

  • I toyed with the idea of tinking it back to a plain row and then going forwards (in reverse) once more, but I really have no experience in tinking in a double backwards direction

    British Blogs 2010

  • This way of tinking about growth gives rise to an implicit exponetial model.

    Nonlinear Thinking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The bullets made a metallic, tinking sound as they glazed off the windscreen.

    Blonde, Black and Blood Red nathreee 2010

  • But cold sober and free of all the ghosts I had brought back from a land of rice paddies and elephant grass and hills that looked like the summer-browned breasts of Asian women, I had seen my father standing in the surf south of Point Au Fer, the rain tinking on the hard hat he was wearing when he died in an offshore blowout.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Inside his sleep, he could hear the rain on the roof and in the trees and hear it tinking on the air conditioner inset in the window.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Inside his sleep, he could hear the rain on the roof and in the trees and hear it tinking on the air conditioner inset in the window.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • But cold sober and free of all the ghosts I had brought back from a land of rice paddies and elephant grass and hills that looked like the summer-browned breasts of Asian women, I had seen my father standing in the surf south of Point Au Fer, the rain tinking on the hard hat he was wearing when he died in an offshore blowout.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • But cold sober and free of all the ghosts I had brought back from a land of rice paddies and elephant grass and hills that looked like the summer-browned breasts of Asian women, I had seen my father standing in the surf south of Point Au Fer, the rain tinking on the hard hat he was wearing when he died in an offshore blowout.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • SWMBO @ surf club meeting, The Bobette doing homework and a MM tinking in a tumbler.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » And now I owe Doc Yobbo two bucks. 2010

  • June 1, 2010 at 9:47 am ai was tinking of teh sayme thing!

    Subway cat available - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

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