Example Sentences

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Lawrence bounds over to a shelf with several jars of a brown tinctured slurry, the results of which they’ll use to create a cacao perfume.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

Baehrel has a thing for molecular gastronomy; his small bites are dehydrated, infused, and tinctured on their way from lawn to mouth.

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 12, 2013

But the celebration was tinctured with deep unease.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2011

It could be a sort of royal court for the kind of kingdom Eastman creates, whimsical but not cute, tinctured with a sort of likely absurdity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The foreshore of the village is rugged with boulders richly tinctured with iron oxide, and often having a scoriaceous surface.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)