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Recent Examples of tinny
Saturday afternoons weren’t complete without a browse through the racks, the smell of fresh plastic packaging, and the soundtrack of pop hits piped over tinny speakers.
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Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The hum of a refrigerator, the distant drone of a neighbor’s lawnmower, the tinny bleeping of a vintage Gameboy, the rhythmic creak of trampoline springs in action.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025
The tinny, atmospheric beat escalates the wickedness, like a party that ends with a seance.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 7 Mar. 2025
That tinny little sound twinkling somewhere nearby.
—Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
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The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.—
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Yimobra Memory Foam Bath Mat, $9 with Prime The bath mat is made from memory foam that feels plush underfoot and cushions each step, unlike thin cotton mats.—
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What's more, this door alarm features three sensitivity levels and emits a loud, shrill sound that will instantly scare an intruder away.—
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When Nosferatu showed his corpselike face, the Wonder Morton’s Vox Humana (human voice) and concert-flute pipes buzzed together in a shrill cluster.—
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Jinn notes that this supereffective cleansing oil rinses completely clean, leaving skin soft rather than squeaky.—
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The squeaky wheel definitely gets the grease today.—
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Depending on the keyboard and its modifications, their sound can range from high-pitched and hollow to deep and full.—
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Suddenly, the quiet is broken by a voice, high-pitched and smiling.—
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Audio adjustments Besides volume controls, kids’ karaoke machines may have other audio adjustment settings for balance, treble, bass or echo.—
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The noise cancellation is legendary, and the sound is balanced and clean, with no weird bass boosting or treble harshness.—
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Greene was among a small but strident group of Republicans in Congress who refused to move on.—
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For two years leading up to the fatal shooting, as police archive video shows, Lorincz constantly called 911 to make false allegations about her Black neighbors, reserving many of her most strident complaints for children who played near her house (on property they were entitled to enjoy).—
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“Tinny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinny. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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