ting
verb (used with or without object)
to make or cause to make a high, clear, ringing sound.
has tinged
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present perfectof ting (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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present perfectof tinge (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
tingeverb (used with object)to impart a trace or slight degree of some color to; tint.
Example Sentences
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Smoke from Canada has tinged the sky orange in New York and led to health warnings in parts of Canada and the US northeast.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2023
The death in January of Erich Segal, the Harvard-educated classicist who wrote both the screenplay and the original best-selling novel, has tinged his brainchild’s ruby anniversary with particular poignance.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2010
In 1924, how ever, he had the misfortune to be come associated in the public mind with the "Ohio Gang" — an association which has tinged many a man with villainy.
From Time Magazine Archive
That first touch of dawn has tinged them with rosy pink, and they sit with their faces to the sunrise, which they must have seen somewhere about one million times already.
From Round the Wonderful World by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
In an age when a realism so strong as to be unpleasant has tinged too much of latter-day fiction Mr Stevenson stood altogether apart from the school of the realists.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Margaret Moyes Black
