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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "tinker" in a sentence

    tinker example sentences

    tinker


    1. Tinker about with poem,


    2. Whether I think it's better or not is immaterial, it takes a hundred years to get there, I'm twenty six now, us religious fanatics from Earth don't tinker with God's appointed hour and I think I've proved my case


    3. It was electric blue and had pink Tinker Bell fairy lights in the headlights, pink titanium end stops on the bars and valve caps


    4. And he came out of his potting shed to find Minty Pinter, the tinker, running up his pathway


    5. ” The tiny tinker winked and nodded in affirmation


    6. Pots, named for his trade as a tinker


    7. “Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves, young Miss,” said the Tinker, still shrouded in azalea foliage


    8. Full of new intent, Wynne began to tinker with the device at his neck


    9. He still struggled with whether or not it was right to tinker


    10. All you need to do is tinker around and see for yourself

    11. I see my little shop, where I like to tinker with pieces, put things back together


    12. Legos and Tinker Toys, a dozen flat-screen TVs showing different news


    13. Still the robots go to work, lifting collapsed walls, ceilings, and overturned automobiles like children playing with Tinker Toys


    14. voted to retaining the program's Tinker Toy-style extensibility


    15. We need to tinker here and there to bring perfection


    16. They asked a few questions, but seemed satisfied with our explanation that we just liked to tinker with stuff


    17. Tinker Toy building sets


    18. Three Welshmen and a Lollard tinker


    19. Owen Ap-Richard was there with his boys and so was the tinker


    20. Richard grinned mischievously and the tinker pounced like a Lollard cat on a wayward mouse

    21. The tinker said it didn’t matter a toad’s fart whether she was noble or not because when the Lollards took over there wouldn’t be any nobles left


    22. Nor was the tinker


    23. Owen and the tinker had drawn swords


    24. “A tinker then are you? Th


    25. “In any event,” the tinker continued, “I have a cart a ways


    26. Just then two highlanders entered, and the tinker took his ale


    27. and pressure; while advanced skiers may tinker more with their


    28. you can tinker with different snow conditions and tougher tasks first that can


    29. the liners out and tinker with them: experiment with


    30. should be a cant adjustment, in case you need to tinker

    31. independent-leg-action, and without poles to tinker


    32. Whilst the subconscious mind is happy to tinker around with the edges of this picture, it hates to


    33. Your subconscious is not willing to tinker around with basically-held beliefs


    34. Not like the other tinker


    35. "What other tinker?" said Mr


    36. She wasted no time wondering why: he made enemies faster than a tinker made friends


    37. Plodding around the parade ground that winter, Louie and Harris befriended Frank Tinker, a dive-bomber pilot and opera singer who had been brought from Kwajalein with Garrett


    38. Harris and Tinker were experiencing the sparkling mental clarity, prompted by starvation, that Louie had first known on the raft


    39. Tinker became conversant in Norwegian in a single week, taking lessons from his cell neighbors


    40. When Tinker asked what he was doing, Harris said he was reading a text that he had studied at Annapolis many years earlier

    41. IT WAS THE SUMMER of 1944, and Louie and Frank Tinker were walking together in the Ofuna compound


    42. If we could get out of here, he asked Tinker, could you fly a Japanese plane?


    43. Tinker, who’d been captured more recently than Harris and Louie, had the most current knowledge of which areas of China were occupied by the enemy


    44. Harris, Tinker, and Louie had heard rumors that the Japanese had retaliated against Chinese civilians for sheltering the Doolittle men, but didn’t know the true extent of it


    45. Louie was five foot ten, Tinker six feet, Harris even taller


    46. If Louie, Harris, and Tinker were caught, they would almost certainly be killed, either by civilians or by the authorities


    47. Three weeks later, on the morning of September 30, 1944, the guards called the names of Zamperini, Tinker, Duva, and several other men


    48. Louie, Frank Tinker, and a handful of other Ofuna veterans stood by the front gate of the Omori POW camp, which sat on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay


    49. One night, when he found Frank Tinker deathly ill, Louie waited for the guards to pass, snuck to the Scots’ barracks, and told them that Tinker was in trouble


    50. The Scots sent Louie back to Tinker with a load of sugar, no charge



















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    Synonyms for "tinker"

    chub mackerel scomber japonicus tinker tinkerer fiddle mess around monkey monkey around muck about muck around potter putter

    "tinker" definitions

    a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts


    formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living


    small mackerel found nearly worldwide


    do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly


    work as a tinker or tinkerer


    try to fix or mend