Sentence examples for tint from inspiring English sources

Photographs from 1909 show a much lighter tint to the wood than the dark treacly stain most will remember.

Ideally, I'd use fresh Chinese alkali noodles, made with flour, water and lye water which gives them a lovely, bouncy springy texture as well as a yellowish tint.

Looking over the plantations that give this dry mountainous area a misty blue tint, the agave shortage does seem difficult to imagine.

The herbs and tinctures he gathers – such as seeds from the airampo opuntia cactus –tint his homemade ice cream Pepto-Bismol pink.

It has a tint and texture that Michelangelo himself couldn't replicate.

"When the horses approached the winning post, the prevalent tint of the faces in the great stand changed notably, and became distinctly more pink under the flush of entertainment," the great statistician wrote afterwards in Nature.

The new European Commission that took office earlier this month has an Anglo-Saxon tint, not least in its first vice-president, Frans Timmermans, a plummy-voiced Dutchman with a mandate to slash red tape.

Now the tint of innocent blood renders it murky and sinister.

And View, another immigrant-founded Californian start-up, has opened its only factory in Mississippi, where it employs some 150 people to produce smart windows that change tint to alter the amount of heat and light entering a building without obscuring the view for those inside it.

Using an LED system this way can cut running costs by up to 80%, says Marc de Jong, who heads the company's professional lighting division.The company is also developing LED-based lighting systems for homes and public buildings which change the colour tint according to use and time of day.

They feel they have been done down by the Kurdish-Shia compact giving the Kurds extreme autonomy, while pleasing the Shias by giving the document not only an Islamist tint but also letting them (and Sunnis) form their own decentralised regions, further dividing Iraq to the detriment, they believe, of the Sunnis.