How to Use dinky in a Sentence

dinky

adjective

• I used to drive a dinky little car.
• Those dinky, layup-like 23-footers still count as three points.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• On the tarmac at the Nashua Airport sat a dinky white plane with wings mounted over the fuselage.
  — Kurt G. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• Many, if not most, cafes have a vat in their kitchens, and dinky jars of less than one ounce dot airport lounges across the country.
  — Natasha Frost Abigail Varney, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• Back at the dock, Dennis and Skraps fillet our two fish and hand us a plastic bag with some dinky morsels of white flesh.
  — Daniel McGinn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• There was a pool, there was even a dinky little treadmill in the garage for people who wanted it.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2019
• My hand hurt like hell from using a dinky computer mouse hours at a time.
  — Matt Jancer, Wired, 19 Apr. 2020
• Although that dinky rear wing throws the balance off, the car’s overall shape is quite pleasing.
  — Tony Borroz, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2009
• The second binary is made of one star much like the Sun, and another dinky red one.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2012
• One star is a dinky red dwarf, and the other is a fairly Sun-like star, though somewhat smaller and cooler.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
• That could also be a cover for not wanting to go to a dinkier platform / get sued, but there does seem to be a grain of truth to that.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
• Planets searches have looked there for decades, and in fact for a while it was thought the dinky red dwarf Proxima might have a planet.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2012
• And yet, the only stock Berkshire bought last quarter was a dinky retailer, RH.
  — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• When else would there be the chance to find a Link Wray album, put it on his dinky record player and let his head fill with rockabilly?
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
• Think: Pancake mixes for one, dinky wine charms, beer koozies with other peoples’ names on them.
  — Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit, 8 Aug. 2017
• Think: Pancake mixes for one, dinky wine charms, beer koozies with other peoples’ names on them.
  — Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit, 9 Aug. 2017
• Even the Suzuki, with its dinky wheelbase, rides well enough—as long as the freeway's surface quality holds up.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• There was glorious mango ice cream from a dinky corner shop.
  — Matt Gross, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• Free 2 are a dinky pair of true wireless earbuds with true adaptive noise canceling and up to 35 hours of playtime on a single charge.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• Some people are going to want Jimmy to hurry up and become Saul Goodman and why is this dinky, blond ponytail in our way?
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• Scott Pelley was stronger on the roots of fake news, while a feature on the impact of chess on a dinky Mississippi county was endearing.
  — vanityfair.com, 27 Mar. 2017
• Comfort: To deposit a human in the Twizy's dinky backseat, slide the driver's seat all the way forward and make sure your passenger bends all the way over while clambering in.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2018
• There are, however, plenty of dinky hot plates that won’t heat a pot or pan evenly and effectively.
  — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2020
• Amal added metallic accessories: a dinky gold clutch with a chain and silver sandals that complemented the detail on the dress.
  — Alice Cary, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2022
• The pods are available in customized sizes, ranging from a dinky three-window to a spacious 10-window with a bedroom, en suite and kitchenette.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
• Even on a relatively dinky TV, the color-jammed Land of the Dead dwellings and the high-soaring alebrijes are deliriously vibrant.
  — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2018
• Either way, expect to see more dinky brows dominating your feed.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 22 Sep. 2021
• About 80 million years ago these dinosaurs hit a growth spurt, perhaps because giant competitors died off, and the great dinky-armed predator emerged.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2010
• This 26-year-old British producer contributed a dinky track to that Coldplay album, and everything here is even worse.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• For me, there’s no delight like walking down Gertrude Street in Fitzroy and finding a dinky little linen shift dress with a quirky collar that was made by the designer/machinist sitting at the back of the shop.
  — Besha Rodell, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024