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Meanings of tinny in English

Of very poor quality.

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      Metallic element.

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            Examples for "metallic element"
            Examples for "metallic element"
            1
            The synthesis strategy involves one-step route for doping foreign metallic element and forming porous cobalt phosphide polyhedrons.
            Pubmed
            2
            This company was in turn owned by a company called Ebrium Ltd (a rare earth metallic element).
            Independent.ie
            3
            A natural metallic element, cobalt has unique properties that make it a key component in the production of batteries.
            The Irish Times
            4
            Elements bigger than uranium simply could not behave exactly like a tiny metallic element nowhere near uranium on the periodic table.
            The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a...
            5
            A metallic element, arsenic kills by disrupting cellular metabolism to such a degree that it can literally poison every cell in the body.
            Wired
            Usage of tinny in English
            1
            Her voice sounded tinny and tired in the earphones of my fishbowl.
            A Spaceship Named McGuire
            2
            It had been crackling, sputtering nasal tinny words while the men talked.
            Funland
            3
            The tone was tinny, the same phrases were repeated time after time.
            Depths
            4
            The tinny sound of the possibility of cocaine woke him every time.
            High on arrival
            5
            The water was room temperature and had a tinny taste to it.
            Earth Afire
            6
            It's flat and tinny, not at all what it used to be.
            Engineering Infinity
            7
            And the sword laughed, a tinny sound without lungs to hold it.
            Micah & Strange Candy
            8
            I can hear tinny hip-hop music coming from the dangling ear bud.
            Dexter by Design
            9
            He knocked on the bar across the top, a tinny echoing clang.
            The cold room
            10
            From the next block tinny Near Eastern music skirled from a radio.
            Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
            11
            There was a tinny, clanking sound at the edge of the property.
            Vicious
            12
            Sometimes they had a machine that made scratchy music with tinny singing.
            Silence of the grave
            13
            The sound emanating from the DijAssist was too tinny for Justin's liking.
            The unincorporated man
            14
            Her voice was tinny and small, like air pressed into a straw.
            Gods of Risk
            15
            It's like they almost always have the same taste, a little tinny.
            In the night room: a novel
            16
            Then the tinny taste in my gummed-up mouth floods me with self-loathing.
            Lit: a memoir
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