ting
verb (used with or without object)
to make or cause to make a high, clear, ringing sound.
were tinging
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past progressiveof ting.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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past progressiveof tinge.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
tingeverb (used with object)to impart a trace or slight degree of some color to; tint.
Example Sentences
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All those scraggy- looking Santa Clauses were standing on corners ringing those bells, and the Salvation Army girls, the ones that don't wear any lipstick or anything, were tinging bells too.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
She was evidently a reckless gardener, for half the time she leaped directly into the vegetable beds, treading down the shoots that were tinging them with departing greenness.
From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Looking to the right, the eye became lost in the woods, where all tints of green were tinging the foliage, and the bushes of the wild cocoa-nut burned scarlet as hawberries.
From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
The sun was just setting behind the distant hills, and his rays were tinging with a soft, mellow light, the foliage of the trees, of a thousand variegated colors.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
The red beams of the rising sun were tinging the white foam of the billows with a flush of crimson.
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Susanna Moodie
