Sentence examples for the tinker from inspiring English sources

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the tinker

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An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of tin

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Tinker Field, a stadium in the shadow of the Citrus Bowl, and the Tinker Building, Tinker's office in Orlando, are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Tinker is perhaps best known for the "Tinker to Evers to Chance" double play combination in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," written by the New York Evening Mail newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams in July 1910.

And that drawback, as with anything, is the tinker.

There are five suspects – all identified by characters from the "Tinker, Tailor" jingle.

The Tinker patriarch actually wanted his baseball-playing son to work in the family's wallpaper business, Jon Jay said.

He produced two long running TV series, The Tinker Shop and Through Childrens' Eyes for which he won a regional Emmy.

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Peter Firth plays the somewhat preposterous Sir Harry Pearce, an enigmatic intelligence chief who appears to go rogue after making a terrible mistake – now apparently on a mission to discover the Tinker-Tailor-type mole in the upper reaches of the service.

Evers served as the pivot man in the "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" double-play combination, which inspired the classic baseball poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon", written by New York Evening Mail newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams in July 1910.

I bring this up, Virginia, because I want you to know that for me, Christmas was much more than that traveling tinseled tree, the model trains, the Lincoln Logs, the Tinker-Toys and that poem about Santa.

The Tinker Creek Greenway runs through the park.

The monster gadget was demonstrated by Al Tinker of the Tinker-Kirby Corporation of Bellerose, Long Island.

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