How to Use rinky-dink in a Sentence

rinky-dink

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• Because these were not your rinky-dink state fair ziplines.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• Google seemingly trusts itself to keep that data secure, but some rinky-dink startup in Europe?
  — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026
• Only the majesty of the West was good enough for them—they'd never deign to spend a weekend on one of the rinky-dink mountains of the Northeast.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2022
• The only problem is that, for years, true challengers have been forced to participate in rinky-dink Turkey Trot 5Ks.
  — Maeve Dunigan, New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2025
• And there was a asymmetric warfare going on, frankly, between this rinky-dink Substack and this massive consortium of media companies pushing Olivia’s account in front of everyone and the truth in my view went out.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• 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