How to Use dinky in a Sentence

dinky

adjective
  • I used to drive a dinky little car.
  • Those dinky, layup-like 23-footers still count as three points.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • My hand hurt like hell from using a dinky computer mouse hours at a time.
    — Matt Jancer, Wired, 19 Apr. 2020
  • And pushing ‘go’ is what this dinky little Honda seems to be about.
    — New Atlas, 16 Apr. 2026
  • There was a pool, there was even a dinky little treadmill in the garage for people who wanted it.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Although that dinky rear wing throws the balance off, the car’s overall shape is quite pleasing.
    — Tony Borroz, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2009
  • Many, if not most, cafes have a vat in their kitchens, and dinky jars of less than one ounce dot airport lounges across the country.
    — Natasha Frost Abigail Varney, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Either way, expect to see more dinky brows dominating your feed.
    — Elle Turner, Glamour, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The second binary is made of one star much like the Sun, and another dinky red one.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2012
  • This is not a dinky smart projector that streams content over Wi-Fi to a spare wall or big screen.
    — New Atlas, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The thermal imagery makes Travis Scott’s enormous blunt look like a dinky party horn.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 May 2024
  • On the tarmac at the Nashua Airport sat a dinky white plane with wings mounted over the fuselage.
    — Kurt G. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • That could also be a cover for not wanting to go to a dinkier platform / get sued, but there does seem to be a grain of truth to that.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
  • One star is a dinky red dwarf, and the other is a fairly Sun-like star, though somewhat smaller and cooler.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
  • How would real mountains compare to my favorite suburban dinky hill?
    — Blair Braverman, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Back at the dock, Dennis and Skraps fillet our two fish and hand us a plastic bag with some dinky morsels of white flesh.
    — Daniel McGinn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • There are, however, plenty of dinky hot plates that won’t heat a pot or pan evenly and effectively.
    — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The dinky port town of Antiparos, with a strip of cute shops, cafes, and unpretentious restaurants, is a ten-minute drive.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Planets searches have looked there for decades, and in fact for a while it was thought the dinky red dwarf Proxima might have a planet.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2012
  • Even the Suzuki, with its dinky wheelbase, rides well enough—as long as the freeway's surface quality holds up.
    — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • For bankers and brokers, Singapore’s biggest drawback is its dinky stock market.
    — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • At the time, people were used to seeing individual acts perform at dinky civic centers and small theaters.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 14 June 2017
  • And yet, the only stock Berkshire bought last quarter was a dinky retailer, RH.
    — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Even something as dinky as widening sidewalks has become a bigger job than the bureaucracy can manage.
    — Curbed, 5 Oct. 2022
  • When else would there be the chance to find a Link Wray album, put it on his dinky record player and let his head fill with rockabilly?
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
  • That's something that would be very hard to deliver given the concept's dinky dimensions and tight packaging.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Free 2 are a dinky pair of true wireless earbuds with true adaptive noise canceling and up to 35 hours of playtime on a single charge.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Big, 5-pound class fish strike sluggishly at times and come unbuttoned right at the bank while those dinky 12-inchers remain solidly hooked.
    — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2024
  • About 80 million years ago these dinosaurs hit a growth spurt, perhaps because giant competitors died off, and the great dinky-armed predator emerged.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2010
  • Some people are going to want Jimmy to hurry up and become Saul Goodman and why is this dinky, blond ponytail in our way?
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022

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