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    tinny


    1. Apart from the tinny hiss from Lucy’s headphones the Roach household was as silent as the grave for weeks after the murder


    2. somewhere above her Karen could hear the tinny sounds of Strauss


    3. watched as she screamed and yelled above the tinny sound of


    4. “I thank God,” she said, in a tinny voice


    5. Throwing the paper on the floor, Alex punched the replay button on the answer-phone and his daughter’s frightened voice issued from the tinny speaker


    6. The tinny voice dryly rattled out of the speakers on the console, carrying just a hint of silent amusement, and a whiff of sarcasm


    7. LP manoeuvred the boat trailer down a small cement ramp next to the Noosa barge and slid his fourteen foot tinny into the murky brown water


    8. Instantly, the computer screen showed a green ceiling, and the sound of gentle snoring rasped from the tinny computer speakers


    9. ” added the young soldier, his voice tinny through


    10. "That's it, Copperhead," said a tinny voice on the FM, "we're about 100 meters south

    11. The taste of stale smoke was in my mouth, like steel wool, tinny, coppery


    12. Saul eyes it suspiciously, but his jaw drops when Tony presses a green button and the thing starts to speak in a tinny voice


    13. Ricky began to complain waving his arm’s around and shouting, Murray knew that Ricky was trying to hold his attention, Tony knew Ricky had blown it when he’d mentioned the name Shirl, suddenly he made his move, reaching to the back of his belt he produced a large handgun, unfortunately for Tony it was exactly what Murray had expected, the little lead balls from the sawn off twelve bore hit Tony in the chest and threw him back towards the tinny he’d recently vacated, leaving a hole in his torso you could kick a football through


    14. Murray stripped down to his boxers and swam out to the boat, after checking the tinny for fuel he hoisted Tony on board the fishing boat with the small derrick, starting the engine he winched up the anchor and headed out to sea towing the tinny, watching the depth gauge he found a deep trench on the ocean bed and cut the engine, collecting all the papers he could find he put them in a plastic bag, he then dragged Tony and Ricky into the wheelhouse and secured the two bodies with wire rope from the winch, closing and locking the door, Murray then picked up Ricky’s rifle and using the butt broke the glass in one of the small portholes, looking around he saw he was all alone on the ocean and the light was fading as the sun slowly dipped beneath the horizon, lifting the engine cover he fired the rifle into the bottom skin of the boat, for a moment nothing happened then he noticed water beginning to slop around the engine, he climbed into the small tinny, started the outboard and circled the fishing boat watching it slowly sink as it filled with water, when it sank beneath the surface Murray headed back to Dream Bay


    15. They were chirping and she thought that it sounded as though they were saying “Emma! Emma! Emma!” in their tinny bird voices


    16. “Do you want us to answer that or yourself?” A tinny choir of elevator voices surrounded her in the scratch of inquiry that found her dancing on the head of a byte of information – a 1


    17. MC Frank-N-Stein took out his mobile phone and, after a few seconds fumbling, started the track playing through its tinny speaker


    18. "Whose that with you?" a tinny voice sounded from the intercom


    19. Tinny clangs echoed in the hall


    20. The tinny notes fired from a large hand-cranked device in the middle of the room

    21. (Press ‘1’ for sales, ’2’ for service, ‘3’’ to listen to a tinny version of ‘Greensleeves’ 14 times ‘4’ to speak to an operator who’s very nice but no help at all and ‘5’to be plunged into a telephonic abyss


    22. Larry was singing to himself along with the tinny sound on the radio in the Transit


    23. The water tastes tinny but she is so thirsty she cares not


    24. This time, Sister Rebekah heard the thin, tinny sound of the response


    25. “Buckle up, children,” Bill’s voice sounded tinny in the confines of the car


    26. “Yes, who is it?” the tinny sounding speaker blasted out with Grant’s voice


    27. And inside my ear was a tinny noise which only I could hear


    28. theyre all so different Boylan talking about the shape of my foot he noticed at once even before he was introduced when I was in the D B C with Poldy laughing and trying to listen I was waggling my foot we both ordered 2 teas and plain bread and butter I saw him looking with his two old maids of sisters when I stood up and asked the girl where it was what do I care with it dropping out of me and that black closed breeches he made me buy takes you half an hour to let them down wetting all myself always with some brandnew fad every other week such a long one I did I forgot my suede gloves on the seat behind that I never got after some robber of a woman and he wanted me to put it in the Irish times lost in the ladies lavatory D B C Dame street finder return to Mrs Marion Bloom and I saw his eyes on my feet going out through the turning door he was looking when I looked back and I went there for tea 2 days after in the hope but he wasnt now how did that excite him because I was crossing them when we were in the other room first he meant the shoes that are too tight to walk in my hand is nice like that if I only had a ring with the stone for my month a nice aquamarine Ill stick him for one and a gold bracelet I dont like my foot so much still I made him spend once with my foot the night after Goodwins botchup of a concert so cold and windy it was well we had that rum in the house to mull and the fire wasnt black out when he asked to take off my stockings lying on the hearthrug in Lombard street west and another time it was my muddy boots hed like me to walk in all the horses dung I could find but of course hes not natural like the rest of the world that I what did he say I could give 9 points in 10 to Katty Lanner and beat her what does that mean I asked him I forget what he said because the stoppress edition just passed and the man with the curly hair in the Lucan dairy thats so polite I think I saw his face before somewhere I noticed him when I was tasting the butter so I took my time Bartell dArcy too that he used to make fun of when he commenced kissing me on the choir stairs after I sang Gounods Ave Maria what are we waiting for O my heart kiss me straight on the brow and part which is my brown part he was pretty hot for all his tinny voice too my low notes he was always raving about if you can believe him I liked the way he used his mouth singing then he said wasnt it terrible to do that there in a place like that I dont see anything so terrible about it Ill tell him about that some day not now and surprise him ay and Ill take him there and show him the very place too we did it so now


    29. A toy machine-gun sent tinny blasts into the air


    30. The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn

    31. He was a small man, but still had a good six inches on me, and he breathed on me hard, his breath all warm, tinny beer


    32. I couldn’t hear Yuki, but Twilly’s voice was tinny and clear


    33. Then the doorbell rang: one, two, three tinny rings


    34. We scooted down a country lane in a tinny little car on the wrong side of the road


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    Synonyms for "tinny"

    tinny bum cheap cheesy chintzy crummy punk sleazy

    "tinny" definitions

    of or containing tin


    of very poor quality; flimsy


    thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance