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- adverb In a
tinny way.
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Examples
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I've spent my time in it fantasising about its demise in various interesting ways, though in all honesty it's so tinnily-made that if my cat jumped on the roof it would probably collapse under the pressure.
Archive 2009-07-01 Dungeekin 2009
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I've spent my time in it fantasising about its demise in various interesting ways, though in all honesty it's so tinnily-made that if my cat jumped on the roof it would probably collapse under the pressure.
In Which Dungeekin is Jeremy Clarkson. . . Dungeekin 2009
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WE HEAR the strains of Pat Boone's cover of “Good Golly, Miss Molly” tinnily keening in the background.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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My mobile has suddenly started ringing again, “Here Comes the Bride” echoing tinnily around the empty church.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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My mobile has suddenly started ringing again, “Here Comes the Bride” echoing tinnily around the empty church.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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WE HEAR the strains of Pat Boone's cover of “Good Golly, Miss Molly” tinnily keening in the background.
“Weenies” 2008
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Carols crackled tinnily from the speakers at the Sunflower food store, and were poised too on the lips of my children, who dreamed of a white Christmas but had never seen snow.
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Some unidentifiable music was issuing tinnily from it in a feminine register.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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The steps themselves were metal, vibrating tinnily.
Resurrection Men Rankin, Ian, 1960- 2002
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Diana's voice came tinnily out through the tiny speaker.
Blood Lines Huff, Tanya 1993
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