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“From that point on, there’s a tinge of darkness,” composer Rock Burwell said of that signal moment in “Obsession.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

It’s set in a bougie bohemian realm inhabited by actors and writers, cultural nomads who have mystery and money, and a tinge of the sordid about them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Long before apps like Alarmy, makers of alarm clocks recognized that some of their products needed a tinge of menace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

On Thursday the pitch looked to have a thick covering of grass, but by Friday it was losing its green tinge.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

Each candle changed subtly as it was put in place; its flame rose thinner and higher, taking on a golden- white tinge instead of the cold, threatening blue.

From "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper

On songs like “Slushy” and “Predictable Girl,” she intertwines a menagerie of robotic, spacey sirens with tinges of Jersey club beats and ’90s-influenced R&B chords.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

That kind of fatalism tinges her early hits, like in "Fame" when she swears "I'm gonna live forever."

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022

The blast itself fills two pages with white, plus tinges of pink.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

Defective plumbing that tinges water brown or creates an odd taste can also turn people away from the faucet.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022

Moonlight from the windows tinges every room a ghostly blue-white, and they are, all of them, empty.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Her “Soul Mates” may be a ghost story or a tale of wish fulfillment tinged with the fabulous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But when Good was killed, our anger was tinged with fear.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

While City fans were clearly delighted with the victory - and Shaw's significant part in it - it would have been tinged with anxiety over her future.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Shelley’s story is so moving precisely because it’s tinged with firsthand knowledge of the despair that comes with being misunderstood and othered at no fault of one’s own.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

Mr. Larsen's gingery curls are tinged with gray.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Novels like these not only induce insomnia but are also hallucinogenic, tingeing with fantasy the reader's remembrance of known fact.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like a fiery djinn, the hydrogen bomb hung over the House of Commons, shaping every speech, tingeing every mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

I put a pan on the stove and dry toasted the cacao nibs, tingeing the air with the earthy scent I loved.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

Dawn breaks, the sun’s rays tracing the sky above Blackcliff’s ebony belltower like bloodied fingers, tingeing everyone in the courtyard a lurid red.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

“Why?” my mom asks, panic tingeing her voice.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Then the graphic qualifies even that, adding "barely" before "coping," tinging the word a furious flush of pink that seethes into red.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2020

It was long believed that Sativa’s ailing pipelines were responsible for delivering manganese into the water supply and tinging the water brown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2019

Even the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead views its sad, shuffling working-class protagonists from a jaded distance, tinging its humor and affection with mockery and blood.

From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2018

Wherever the “Peter Pan” fantasy turns up, though, her artwork blooms into color, suffusing Wendy’s dreams of Neverland and tinging the elements of the real world that she’s charged with her hopeful imaginings.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017

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