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Recent Examples of tinkle
Noun
On our first evening the piano bar—resplendent in gold Thai silks, with tiger orchids blooming across the green carpet—was filled with laughter, the glug-glug-glug of Champagne pouring, and the tinkle of keys.—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2024 With a swish of metal that was something akin to the tinkle of windchimes, the British Vogue contributor, modeling a dress covered entirely in metal discs, arrived in style: with London designer of the moment Marco Capaldo acting as her knight in shining 16Arlington.—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2023
Verb
Another smaller-scale way to protect plants is to strategically redirect your pet's attention, especially if they're tempted to tinkle in the garden.—Maddie Topliff, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2025 Shaking the capsules produces audio signals that range from rattling stones, over tinkling coins to swooshing sand.—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Oct. 2018 See All Example Sentences for tinkle
In the final moments of the broadcast, she was shown clinking glasses with Jay-Z as his wife, Beyoncé, accepted the night's top honor, album of the year, for the first time.
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Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
In the crowd, her husband, Jay-Z, clinked glasses with fellow nominee Taylor Swift.
They’re woven into the tapestry of our front-yard memories—sticky fingers, crooked signs, and mason jars jingling with coins and all, but somewhere along the way, the simple tradition has faded.
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Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
5 July 2025
And that repeating first couplet — which comprises six of the poem’s 18 lines and occupied the first day of this challenge — will surely jingle in your pocket for a long time to come.
Though this installation of tintinnabulation has been a feature of the garden for more than a decade, some frequent visitors only noticed the chimes this summer, when a small crew recently installed them in a large linden tree adjacent to Parade Stadium.
Raj Subramaniam, center, rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on April 17, 2023, in New York.
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Gabriel Snyder,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
Core One Pro offers four hearing modes: Normal for everyday conversations, Outdoor for wind noise reduction, Restaurant for filtering background chatter, and a specialized Tinnitus mode that provides masking sounds for those suffering from ear ringing.
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