Example Sentences

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Purists cringe, but many philatelists say that doing so — carefully, and tinily — does not damage a stamp or detract from its value.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021

Triennially is one of the very few English words in which the odd and the even letters spell two complete words: tinily and renal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Author McCarthy's Memories are sometimes tinily footprinted, particularly when she is talking about her suitably eccentric Jewish grandmother.

From Time Magazine Archive

She did not whisper the intimate details of her honeymoon to other young married women; she did not run about quaintly and tinily telling her difficulties with household work.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair

She raised her small gloved fist, yawned ever so gently, tiptapping her small gloved fist on her opening mouth and smiled tinily, sweetly.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James