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Recent Examples of tinkle
Noun
The door chime at their floral and gift shop tinkles every few minutes as another customer and friend comes in to collect their $10 bows.—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024 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
Verb
The herds are decked out in crowns of flowers, and the air will be noisy, full of tinkling bells as the cattle trudge down from the higher Alpine pastures to the lower stretches of greenery in and around this town.—AFAR Media, 4 Aug. 2025 The sound of the water tinkling on the fountain’s bronze statues makes my heart flutter.—Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for tinkle
Some say his spurs are still jingling down the hallway, chasing after her.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Oct. 2025
With real feathers and a jingling bell, this feather cat teaser taps into your cat’s natural hunting instincts.
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Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Cloudy chords, meditative tintinnabulation, the whoosh of wind and rain, blocks of iridescent brass — all these discrete sonorities trundled by, like a train of boxcars with panoramas painted on their sides.
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