How To Use Dinky In A Sentence
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A fascinator, for those of you who have been living in a cardboard box under the stairs for the past six months, is a dinky little head piece that is set to knock the traditional big race day hats into a cocked hat this year.
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Despite the fact that a Dinky toy car can fetch many times more than its real life counterpart, it is still possible to find bargains.
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If I hadn't loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee.
The Prairie Mother
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The screw driver is mightier than the sword, hey, Dink?" called the irrepressible Roy, as Dinky hurried away into the darkness.
Tom Slade with the Colors
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It is fair to say the only Porsche I could have afforded would have been a dinky toy.
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We drove over and found a somewhat dinky little dirt park adjoining a railroad track.
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I undid the paper and stuffed in Dinky cars, Transformers and some of my favourite Star Wars figures.
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Are we going to be living in some small, dinky shack with no running water and a cast iron cauldron for cooking?
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From the dinky tin the adherent would peel back the paper lid and remove several spoonfuls of the inert powder, add tapwater, stir and watch in amazement as a lurid froth began to bubble away.
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Of course I mean more than a small dinky deposit, anyone with some geological training or even studying can figure out probable areas where there might be a deposit.
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They warm my heart somethin 'braave; an' they let the gray mosses cling to 'em an 'the dinky blue butterflies open an' shut their wings 'pon 'em, an' the bramble climb around theer arms.
Lying Prophets
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Seminal majority, dinky, seed coat has fossa opening , endosperm flesh is qualitative.
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what a dinky little hat
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Australian of animals, as dinky-di as Uluru and the Opera House.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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Several white players were upset that Brown and two other black players - Dick Lane, known as Night Train, and Danny Lewis - had to stay in a "dinky" hotel away from their teammates.
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Then he creates a hyperkinetic rubber called flubber and suddenly he's thwarting villains, winning basketball games and saving his rinky-dinky college, as well as his love life.
Film Clips
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This isn't a dinky log jump we're talking about; it's big air with even bigger consequences, so you've got to be certain you can clear the gap before you launch.
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After the heroic installations of Judd, Flavin and Andre on the lower floors of the Guggenheim, McCollum's modestly sized, wall-mounted works looked, well, dinky.
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To get away from the showbiz glitz, head down Palma's side streets and dinky squares for good shopping, eating and historic sights.
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In the dinky Tandori oven of an elevator, the sweat of the non-paying subtenant drips onto my head, arms, and legs.
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I suspect that the reason wards are 'dinky' in Boise and not very large around here is precisely because of density.
Mysterious Dirty Tricks Mailer Reminds South Carolinians About Romney's Mormonism
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Hotchkis's dinky ad budget translates into low annual fees.
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TuT, I heard another Danny Kaye song on the radio the other day, something about a dinky-di kangaroo.
What I cooked last night.
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Puffing on the single-gauge track was a "dinky" engine, coupled to a flat car.
Still Jim
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Telephone and telegraph wires run through the trenches and even railroad tracks are laid so that small engines go whirring through the ditches like "dinky" locomotives in a coal mine.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
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Kung biet, toi dinky dau ," Harry said, reverting to Vietnamese slang.
VAPOR TRAIL
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Small dinky lorries were lined up, their drivers like pygmies from another world than that of the steel ship.
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The lamb roast is a dinky-di Australian institution.
At My Table
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By obtaining control of a certain up-country bank, two general stores, and several logging camps, he could come into control of a certain dinky jerkwater line which shall here be nameless, but which, in his hands, would prove the key to a vastly larger situation involving more main-line mileage almost than there were spikes in the aforesaid dinky jerkwater.
Winged Blackmail
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He still calls his own his "dinky" and insists that Nate's be called a dinky or dink too.
Head and shoulders, knees and...?
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For example, a die-cast Dinky lorry that sold for less than £1 in 1950 fetched £12,000 earlier this year.
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When I recently rammed the rear of a dinky Toyota on the Ventura Freeway, I bent it up pretty badly.
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LIVING in a dinky little London mews house is a pretty universal fantasy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The jet-set will love the dinky sunglasses pouch, complete with a cleaning cloth on elastic cord.
The Sun
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You can delve into its dinky shops, which include several exclusive antiques stores, interiors shops, delicatessen and gift shops, and have lunch in a number of smart eateries or pubs.
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With so many speaker systems to choose from, there's little need to listen to a movie through the dinky hookup in your television.
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Pettable goats, dinky donkeys and a play barn with go-karts and death slides.
Times, Sunday Times
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IMAGINE a dinky electric city car that morphs into a Formula 1 racer.
The Sun
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He has a seductively tumbling, pigeon-toed gait and a dinky, prompting, short-passing range.
Why we must savour the rare English delicacy that is Jack Wilshere
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Also, seeing the pictures that prove those dinky little slides really do deploy as rafts is comforting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, about half an hour later, Lauryn was dressed, fed, and in the dinky vehicle she liked to call a car, on her way to Chris's house.
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Jean loves all the old furniture and was more interested in going in and looking at the 'pretties' which were all chest and things than looking at the dinky toys or the ty toys with dad which was a suprise.
Snell-Pym » Getting Lost With Dad
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As for refreshment of the liquid sort, walk down Belmont Street, just off Union Street, and you'll find yourself in dinky bar heaven.
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Or if, like me, you simply want to take a look at the day, you can easily lose yourself down the narrow, winding lanes, tiny coastal towns and dinky fishing ports.
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The face of that simple-souled Swede took on such a look of wondering trouble that Dinky-Dunk deliberately and at great detail told of a ghost that had been repeatedly seen in an abandoned wickyup a little farther west in the province.
The Prairie Wife
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we stayed in a dinky old hotel
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Our daughter lives with us, not some teacher and her husband in a dinky apartment!
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On his way out he grabbed a Dinky silver-dye cast model aircraft.
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Now let us consider a little, dinky, old minah bird with one broken wing that cannot fly.
WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL
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Yes, the joys of the cheese toastie were being savoured by our civic leaders thanks to the invention of a dinky device by a forward-looking silversmith.
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Indeed, almost three decades on, his gift for moving is so astonishing that he makes Longborough's dinky stage feel ten times the size it is.
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A poet and a parent, she has used the experience of the latter into a dinky collection of poems titled Baby, inspired by the birth of Comrie, her first child.
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From dire threats, such as pushing in the front of his face, from rabbit-foot fetishes to lucky horseshoes, from dinky jerkwater bids to the quarter-of-a-million-dollar offers of irresponsible nobodies, he knew the whole run of the surprise portion of his mail.
Chapter I
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Not for Ed some little dinky tablet that you could hold in your hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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But under the bonnet is a dinky 1-litre engine.
The Sun
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A derrick operating a clam-shell unloaded the sand and gravel into a small hopper, discharging into dump cars operated by a "dinky" up an incline, passing over sand and gravel storage bins.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs
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Think of the L as a big brother for the dinky 500 city car.
The Sun
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Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
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Hopefully there was a stopover at Jim's Place, Stuart's Well, for hot toddies and nibbles, the last sign of running water for a while and maybe Dinky, the resident dingo, crooned a special early song for them all.
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Her starter was two light, succulent onion bhaji with Vegetable Kori with dinky little metal dishes of lentils and chickpeas with pilau rice and a huge naan bread.
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It's all so enticing - those galvanised planters, the dinky lamps to dangle from trees - that I'm revved up and excited and, by the time I reach the till, actually panting.
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I told Dinky-Dunk I wanted two new window-frames, beaverboard for inside lining, and two gallons of paint.
The Prairie Mother
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Take a train to Princeton Junction and, from there, take the “Dinky” railcar to Princeton, right by the campus.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Cheap lodgings near Princeton?
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LIVING in a dinky little London mews house is a pretty universal fantasy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Music Clip digital music player maintains this trend - it's delightfully dinky, but has a less-than-petite price tag.
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At best, the application could be called dinky; the interface is horrendous, and there is no user manual, or anything to really indicate what is going on.
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I thought the fireplace was kind of dinky and squishy-looking.
I went to the mayor’s place « knitnut.net
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It's the diggity diggity stuff, thats dinky-di, too hot, true blue, that makes you want to bust the Aussie Hip Hop with Maya on the J's and bust a non peanut butter and jam rap.
Archive 2006-02-01
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In the letter, which was sent up the chimney on November 1, 1960, she asks Santa Claus for a jar, a bottle for her dolly, a stick with a balloon on it and a Rolls Royce dinky and a game of Ludo.
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Burlington Arcade has these ‘watchmen’ called beadles, and Princes Arcade runs between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street and has lots of teeny dinky little shops.
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Both defenders missed their tackles and Gudjohnsen clipped a dinky chip over Given, only to watch in horror as it bobbled wide.
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Dinky-Dunk ever to speak of it as "sowbelly" or even as a "slice of grunt" again.
The Prairie Wife
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That's why Curtis has the least powerful computer at Merrill Lynch on his desk, along with a dinky monitor.
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On the way back from Dorking, we stopped in a dinky little village called ‘Gomshall’, where we spotted a ‘new age’ type shop.
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Everything feels dinky and a certain pre-war atmosphere prevails as we huddle inside, watching the rain lash at the portholes.
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But the advantage now of having all of those proposals that maybe were sometimes described as being "dinky" -- (laughter) -- is that they now add up to some serious work that we can put before the Congress in the form of legislative proposals.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
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If you want a Mac mini to be your media hub, chances are it's because it's small and dinky and looks more like a space-age waffle toaster than a computer.
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A dinky little singer was blasted in a Matamoros hospital in December for irritating some cartel guys, so murder among the scrubs is not an innovation in crime for Mexican gangsters.
El Paso Invites Mexico Crime across the Border
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We had lunch in their dinky little restaurant, and figured that we were the youngest people there, by a margin of about forty years.
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How in the world could a school with such a dinky gym ever help a league with big-time aspirations?
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Yeah, my situation is similar to Darryl Kerrigan - but that was a movie and I'm dinky-di," said the 47-year-old hospital orderly, who even has a copy of the 1997 film.
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Loads of dinky synths, some dub and a little rock raunch get Moulinexed into a confusing, almost nauseating aural mush that's anywhere from catchy bizarro-pop to excruciating noise assault.
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‘If I can do all this from a little dinky office with no funding,’ he exclaims, ‘imagine what the FBI could do!’
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I grew up in a dinky little town that didn't even have a movie theater.
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So I dutifully began the process of double check for permit/ticket before punching details into my rinky dinky little hand held computer prior to handing out parking ticket.
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The sides were fresh, well seasoned, perhaps a little bit dinky.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best thing that could have happened was EI (equine influenza), because it made the mares go to" dinky-di "stallions and the quality is right up," she said.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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Mind you, my generation has survived and we even had toys such as lead soldiers and Dinky cars which also were made of some or other alloy, a bit of lead too maybe.
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I'd probably be stuck in Flordia, going to work every single day, and getting married at a dorky, dinky wedding down there.
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I lived in some verminous dives in my youth, but spent a few glorious years in a Dinkytown flat and Uptown.
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This one's kinda dinky, but I'm not getting as much time to write as I'd thought.
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Festive sprays of leaf and berry heighten the bright and breezy feel of this sub-Saharan Dinky-Dell, and enhance its Greeting Card air of chirrupy good cheer.
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And down what Dinky-Dunk once called the honeyed corners of my mouth went another pair of lines which clearly came from too much laughing.
The Prairie Child
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Hotchkis's dinky ad budget translates into low annual fees.
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Here, the car-designed by set designer John Arnone-is some kind of dinky cartoon version, like a covered golf cart.
Penis Jokes Fly Fast, Furious but The Full Monty is Flaccid
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As I pointed out at the time, my dinky little book about keeping tarantulas as pets underwent a far more rigorous “peer review” than Behe’s, uh, magnum opus did – I had three different experts on tarantulas two with PhD’s in arachnology and books of their own read the entire manuscript, cover to cover, twice, before I even sent it to the publisher.
Peer Review - The Panda's Thumb
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Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
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How in the world could a school with such a dinky gym ever help a league with big-time aspirations?
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It's like a little teddy bear because it's so small and dinky.
Times, Sunday Times
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While all along I sat with the dinky volksie steering wheel clamped in my white clenched fists, racking my brain for some county that had the word mutilation or perdition in it, up or down the little wooden hill to which etc.
Kalooki Nights
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The dark was broken only by a few dinky lampposts here and there along the stretch of bumpy road.
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Her starter was two light, succulent onion bhaji with Vegetable Kori with dinky little metal dishes of lentils and chickpeas with pilau rice and a huge naan bread.
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I don't want dinky little reviews that tell me nothing.
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London, naturally, is leading the way in the burgeoning trend for nail bars offering manicures to little girls accompanying their mothers and dinky versions of grown-up perfumes and accessories.
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If cultural value, who you are, has no worth then 'dinky-di Aussies' can kiss themselves goodbye," he said.
Undefined
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For example, a die-cast Dinky lorry that sold for less than £1 in 1950 fetched £12,000 earlier this year.
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The white-bread show was nearly cancelled at the end of its last season, having shed viewers like those pretty autumn leaves you see in the dinky town of Stars Hollow, where it's set.
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I gripped my dinky plastic fork we were supplied with by the mean cafeteria ladies in my hand; I was very tempted to just stab her.
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Unsatisfied with off-the-rack roman shades — too dinky and un-luxe — and horrified by custom curtain costliness, I noticed the industrial roller shade, an undervalued player on the scene.
It
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Yet he can't be accused of favouring dinky little halts over the mighty trainsheds of our biggest cities.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm going to be a bitter-ender, in at least one thing: I'm going to stick to my Dinky-Dunk to the last ditch.
The Prairie Child
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Andy and Luke (the people I live with) are both well, and have been showing off their new toy - a digital video camera (it's really dinky and very cool).
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Forget Colonel Mustard with his dinky old lead pipe in the library.
