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Recent Examples of tinny
That tinny little sound twinkling somewhere nearby.
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Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
The sound quality of the tinny four-speaker stereo is pretty dreadful though.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 26 May 2023
The tinny roar of the crowd and thick cigar smoke siphoned down the brick corridor.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
The tinny circus music of the ice-cream truck.
—Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2020
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Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
The sound quality of the tinny four-speaker stereo is pretty dreadful though.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 26 May 2023
The tinny roar of the crowd and thick cigar smoke siphoned down the brick corridor.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
The tinny circus music of the ice-cream truck.
—Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinny
Adjective
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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.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Batteries without the filter lost power quickly, while batteries with the atom-thin filter retained almost all their capacity for more than 150 charge-discharge cycles.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Arriving in January, the California Post will be Murdoch’s transplant of his right-leaning tabloid the New York Post, replete with shrill headlines and randy gossip.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
11 Sep. 2025
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One option is to simply double down on the existing approach and become shriller.—
Robert G. Eccles,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Duchamp was the spirit of the avant-garde wheeling through history on a squeaky unicycle.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Another wrong impression involves Morrison’s voice, which seems excited and high-pitched.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2025
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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
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Barcelona picked up a domestic treble as the side continued its stranglehold on Spanish soccer but the 27-year-old will no doubt be disappointed after losing two major finals against English opposition.—
David Close,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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The result is a bass response increase from 4dB to 6dB and treble that’s up to 4dB better.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Carney won an election in April with a strident message for Canadians, warning that theirrelationship with America would change dramatically in the coming years.—
Paula Newton,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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For days, the National Weather Service had been issuing increasingly strident warnings.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Tinny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinny. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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