Like some pianos

Usage examples of tinny.

Scottish kitchen reverberates with bouzouki music and a plaintive tinny voice singing in Greek.

The radian draws hummed as they funneled the ambient light into the parse tubes and the diapson crystals turned it to energy, a peculiar, tinny sound.

A small shift in the capacitance of his sensorium brought him a tinny chime of talk.

It is expansive and well fenced, her landscape, the quiet acres of her mind, and with a soundtrack: the tapping of the rain, the swipping of her poncho against the branches, the tinny jangle of the carabiners swinging from her backpack.

Marine stepped forward to strike one bell in the first dogwatch - a cracked and tinny sound.

And even then they filtered tinny and absurd through the lid, even as Isaac fell into the stream of warm, faecal water, and staggered along the tunnels following the other survivors.

As they moved away, Julius heard the tinny blaring of horns as the Helvetii began to move on.

His voice, raised to carry through the messroom, sounded tinny and high-pitched.

The sound of punk rock, distant and tinny, came at him from a pair of earphones to his right.

A tinny, tiny sound, so faint that he could hear it only intermittently, leaked out into the room from the earplugs of her pocket hifi.

Jack had liked it at first, but in that depressing place it seemed as tinny and irritating as the three girls who were singing along to it while simultaneously drinking milkshakes and smoking cigarettes.

Kloofman leaned heavily forward, straining himself half out of the tank, causing the servomechanisms within his body to whine in tinny protest.

After some tinny clicking and a sharp squeal that made her shiver with discomfort, a nasal recording, in the heavy accent of some backwoods planet, began to drone.

The garage yard's usual din was replaced by the tinny tone of the radio, the creak of metal and glass and wood differentially expanding in the rising heat, and the low murmur of conversation and laughter.

For a minute only the tinny music from Riki's earbud could be heard, and then like a bubble breaking, the background noise from the garden started again.