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How to use tinhorn in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tinhorn? Here are some examples.

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After Urban Cowboy came out even here in Texas we endured several years of overdone, tinhorn headgear.
The New Yorker, October 3, 1942P. 7 Chat with a tinhorn gambler, whom we shall call Jimmy the Bug.
But, anyway, he says, at that point, 'I don't want some tinhorn terrorist keeping the President of the United States out of Washington.
In Broken Bridle, Wyoming, Jeremiah Purdy, the town's tinhorn sheriff is a college kid who wants to become governor some day.
There was an empirical article in the journal Science, an online video of the bird, audio clips reminiscent of its famous tinhorn squeak and seven sightings of the bird by credentialed experts.
Sunset is the only man able to take on tinhorn, Slim Trotwood, a cruel, land grabber who by fraud or by force has accumulated vast areas of valuable land.
The scene of a tinhorn gambler popping one of these slick little argument-settlers out of his sleeve during a contentious poker game is a staple of the horse opera.
We want and deserve tincan architecture in a tinhorn culture.
Not so inevitable, but considering the climate of the times, unsurprisingly, tinhorn Torquemadas throughout the country incinerated thousands of comics in communal ceremonies.
Such a democratic farce could make a tinhorn dictator blush.
He portrayed O'Reilly as a self-satisfied windbag and tinhorn populist.
Examples from Classical Literature
When tinhorn dealt him another jack he bought more chips and backed his pair, for tinhorn, as yet, had none in sight.
On the last turn Smith drew another three and tinhorn another queen.
That makes them mad and the tinhorn bunch keep stirring up trouble.
The next turn showed up a queen for tinhorn and a three-spot for Smith.
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