How to Use rinky-dink in a Sentence
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Because these were not your rinky-dink state fair ziplines.
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Amber Harding Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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Google seemingly trusts itself to keep that data secure, but some rinky-dink startup in Europe?
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Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2026
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Only the majesty of the West was good enough for them—they'd never deign to spend a weekend on one of the rinky-dink mountains of the Northeast.
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Todd Plummer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Oct. 2022
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The only problem is that, for years, true challengers have been forced to participate in rinky-dink Turkey Trot 5Ks.
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Maeve Dunigan,
New Yorker,
25 Nov. 2025
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And there was a asymmetric warfare going on, frankly, between this rinky-dink Substack and this massive consortium of media companies pushing Olivia’s account in front of everyone and the truth in my view went out.
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Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Despite the anodyne cinematography, special effects that look rinky-dink compared to Oppenheimer, and a color palette more suited to an episode of The A-Team than serious cinema, the movie really scared me.
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Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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