tinny

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Recent Examples of tinny The sound quality of the tinny four-speaker stereo is pretty dreadful though. Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 26 May 2023 The tinny Renault Alliance econobox and the derivative GTA hotbox, though built in America, did not rank as assets of note. Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 11 Apr. 2023 The very frailness of the instrument—the way the Moog can sound, to modern ears, occasionally tinny or pitiful—has the effect of enhancing the poignancy of its performance of sacred music, as if making literal, in the contrast itself, our weakness in relation to God. Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020 The tinny circus music of the ice-cream truck. Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2020 See All Example Sentences for tinny
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Adjective
  • The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 May 2025
  • And was there ever, complete with Angus Young, knobby knees and thin ankles, scampering, duck-walking and hopping from place to place.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • Their bathroom floor also pooled with water after showering, and noise from other apartments, like the shrill beeps of a low-battery smoke detector next door, carried through the paper-thin walls.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2025
  • As such, The Studio is shrill and talky, its chaotic scenes sparked by random performers like Charlize Theron, Zac Efron, Olivia Wilde and Sarah Polley, all of whom want something from Remick.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Another wrong impression involves Morrison’s voice, which seems excited and high-pitched.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2025
  • The Nashville singer-songwriter waited a full day with the high-pitched, pulsing sound before calling her doctor to check her ears.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The bass and treble levels can be instantly altered through the controls, while presets can provide quick access to favorite playlists or radio stations.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • The phone's speakers have also been upgraded, with better treble and mid-bass output.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • By agreeing that the reaction is a strident possibility, the next step of determining what to do about it is opened.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • Lost on no one was the fact that Koch was in town—a rare visit, really—to accept the 2025 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, named in honor of the economist who was pretty strident in his opposition to tariffs.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 2 May 2025

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“Tinny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinny. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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