ting
verb (used with or without object)
to make or cause to make a high, clear, ringing sound.
is tinging
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present progressiveof ting (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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present progressiveof tinge (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
tingeverb (used with object)to impart a trace or slight degree of some color to; tint.
Example Sentences
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But see! the setting sun is tinging the tops of the slender, shapely ash trees in yonder emerald copse.
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
Knock off the cones, and bring them, together with the trunk and leaves, to the bottom of the hill Wecheganawaw, when the sun of the morning is tinging the eastern clouds with his brightness.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones
The sun is tinging the eastern sky with the splendor of an Indian Summer morning.
From A Man of the People A Drama of Abraham Lincoln by Thomas Dixon
It is five o'clock, and the sun as it disappears beyond a high ridge of the wolds, is tinging the grey walls of an ancient Gothic fane with a rosy glow.
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
In a top-floor room of one of the darkest of the dilapidated tenements, the dusty window-panes of which the last glow in the winter sky is tinging faintly with red, a dance is in progress.
From Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
