Examples of rinky-dink in a Sentence
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The only problem is that, for years, true challengers have been forced to participate in rinky-dink Turkey Trot 5Ks.
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Maeve Dunigan, New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2025
Despite the anodyne cinematography, special effects that look rinky-dink compared to Oppenheimer, and a color palette more suited to an episode of The A-Team than serious cinema, the movie really scared me.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Unfortunately, the rinky-dink webcam built into your laptop cannot come close to competing with your handset.
—PC Magazine, 25 Sep. 2025
This is not going to be some rinky-dink 80-minute sketch show.
—Jeff Conway, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Daniel Kluger and Drew Levy’s sound design is magnificently unsubtle, and Kluger’s interstitial piano music is spot-on: vaguely period with the quality of being played on the side of the stage on a rinky-dink upright.
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024
The film starts in the characters’ present with Art and Patrick facing off at the 2019 Phil’s Tire Town Challenge in New Rochelle, N.Y., a surprisingly rinky-dink backdrop for all of the fraught flashbacks to come.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
From the outside, Michigan Stadium looks rinky-dink, because three-quarters of it is below ground level.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
By comparison, the scene in Fort Lauderdale was rinky-dink.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
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Maeve Dunigan, New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2025
Despite the anodyne cinematography, special effects that look rinky-dink compared to Oppenheimer, and a color palette more suited to an episode of The A-Team than serious cinema, the movie really scared me.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Unfortunately, the rinky-dink webcam built into your laptop cannot come close to competing with your handset.
—PC Magazine, 25 Sep. 2025
This is not going to be some rinky-dink 80-minute sketch show.
—Jeff Conway, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Daniel Kluger and Drew Levy’s sound design is magnificently unsubtle, and Kluger’s interstitial piano music is spot-on: vaguely period with the quality of being played on the side of the stage on a rinky-dink upright.
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024
The film starts in the characters’ present with Art and Patrick facing off at the 2019 Phil’s Tire Town Challenge in New Rochelle, N.Y., a surprisingly rinky-dink backdrop for all of the fraught flashbacks to come.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
From the outside, Michigan Stadium looks rinky-dink, because three-quarters of it is below ground level.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
By comparison, the scene in Fort Lauderdale was rinky-dink.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
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“Rinky-dink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rinky-dink. Accessed 7 Dec. 2025.
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