How to Use tinny in a Sentence

tinny

adjective

• The sound that emerged should have been thin and tinny.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• His voice sounds strange—tinny and sort of stretched out.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• That same swish is a tinny laugh in the face when your armpits are chafing.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2022
• Its tinny ring is said to scare off the huge creatures.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• The triumphant sound of Afrobeat blares from small, tinny speakers perched atop the kitchen counter.
  — Yasmin Khan, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 June 2021
• Choose the wrong-sized tip and the ANC function won’t work properly and the sound will be weak and tinny.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• The images and tinny voices on the black-and-white TV stirred something else.
  — Connie Dufner, Dallas News, 16 July 2019
• Then the chickpeas are tossed around in whatever is left (not to crisp, but to take the tinny edge off).
  — Alison Roman, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• The sound from the speakers is somewhat tinny and awkwardly loud for people in the room who may be facing the back of the screen.
  — Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2020
• The acoustics were excellent - none of the tinny sound of SAP Center.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Things soon calm down and the engine falls into its low-energy mode, which sounds a bit tinny to my ear.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• This should result in audio that is clearer, crisper and less tinny.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 15 Oct. 2019
• The White Stripes and Outkast played on a tinny sound system, while about 100 boys tossed beanbags and hung out in the winter sunshine.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• The piano’s sound was a little tinny over the stream, but the performance was inspired, and moving.
  — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
• And not just tinny, music from your smartphone that's barely loud enough to hear, but something that sounds good.
  — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• The old cars, tinny and gray, with analog destination signs, could meet the same fate as BART’s legacy trains.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• This isn't like Switch's Dark Souls port, in terms of tinny compression making weapons and voices sound like trash.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 4 June 2020
• The tinny music in the music box is the theme from Swan Lake -- a ballet where the heroine is imprisoned in the body of a swan, stripped of her identity.
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 6 June 2018
• The sound coming from the 2-watt speaker was tinny and shallow, not unlike a smartphone speaker.
  — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
• The anticipation builds as the oil comes to temperature and the first tinny pop rings out.
  — S. Whitney Holmes, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2019
• Stop listening to those tinny TV speakers, and be sure to check out our full buying guide for more info.
  — Parker Hall, Wired, 27 Nov. 2020
• Her words filled the center, needing little help from her tinny speaker.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2019
• The only sound may be the tinny tones of a satellite-navigation device.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• This unnerving haze will come via the tinny effect of a Courtney Love album played through a phone speaker.
  — Vogue, 16 Sep. 2019
• My voice sounds tinny in my own ears, quivering slightly.
  — Heather Chaplin, Cosmopolitan, 7 Sep. 2017
• The air grows closer and my ears tune into tinny whistles of crickets, the calls of unfamiliar birds, and the distant howl of a monkey.
  — Lucy Sherriff, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2018
• And the tinny applause from a big screen of fans was a cheap substitute for a crowded Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2020
• Instead of a tinny audible click, modders feel the bump of a modern motor when flying around the device's click wheel.
  — Brendan Nystedt, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
• Build quality is top-notch, but the doors sound hollow and tinny, especially when shut hard from the outside.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 3 Sep. 2017
• The tablet’s petit frame likely pushed Amazon to shed stereo speakers in favor of a mono rear-facing speaker, which sounds tinny as all get-out.
  — Jeffrey Van Camp, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024