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tinny

adjective

Definition of tinny

as in thin

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Recent Examples of tinny The sound hung, tinny, above the steady roar of the wind that had risen as Noe’s wife was laying out dinner. — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026 There are several ways to enhance your tunes above the tinny sound on your laptop. — Jamie Gold, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 And then, crackling across the radio in both Gemini 7 and Mission Control, just nine days before Christmas of 1965, came a tiny, tinny chorus of Jingle Bells, performed live, on a small harmonica and small set of bells—contraband Schirra had smuggled aboard his ship. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 May 2026 This happened because Sterling was a man of very rare gifts, starting with a set of pipes that, even in his late 80s, could make the grandest church organ sound like a tinny, old saloon piano. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for tinny

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Adjective

The team’s mesh consists of a grid of ultrathin ribbons of polymer with a thin conductive wire of platinum running through them.

— Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026
Scientists fired terahertz radiation, a form of low-frequency invisible light, straight through the ultra-thin samples.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of thin

Adjective

That loon’s shrill call, this rock’s marbled face, and the walleye wriggling several feet below are what’s at home here; the paddler, just a visitor.

— Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2026
With a soprano voice that’s sharp but never shrill, O’Donovan can levitate a heartfelt melody over just about any kind of accompaniment.

— Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of shrill

Adjective

There are four presets as well, including bass boost, bass reducer, treble boost, and treble reducer.

— Christian de Looper, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
But American Sepp Kuss is days away from ticking off a second Grand Tour treble, three years after his first.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of treble

Adjective

One way that has come to me is through adding a thought someone once shared with me to any strident viewpoint that comes to me.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2026
In that version, President Joe Biden, newly empowered with a decisive electoral victory and a country desperate for change, would have been strident in his defense of American democracy.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of strident

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