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Recent Examples of tinkle
Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
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
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
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Noun
Now, new research suggests urination may function in a similar way: Captive chimpanzees that saw their peers peeing were more likely to take a tinkle themselves.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinkle
Noun
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The gift basket included items such as a rattle, books, swaddles, and a blanket, along with other essentials for new parents.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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Silver engraving, masks, totem poles, rattles, prints.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
16 Dec. 2025
Verb
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So the pair took a romp through wine country for Christina’s birthday, clinking glasses at Progeny Winery in Napa Valley and Restoration Hardware in Yountville.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Jan. 2026
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Later on, the younger kids in bed, a gathering of lawn chairs, clinking ice, and summer crickets or cicadas, frogs, whatever, Ray, what is that?—
David Searcy,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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With no wheels touching the rails, the usual clatter and vibration of trains disappear.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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In an era where fingertips skim glass screens and keyboards clatter in relentless rhythm, the act of putting pen to paper feels almost radical.—
Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
31 Dec. 2025
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The next signs of the nation’s political divide might be jingling in your pocket next year.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
12 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2021
Verb
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At that moment, a bell rang, signaling the start of the lunch hour.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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See, the other day, an old acquaintance of Jamie Teumer’s rang him up with the most indecent of Denver proposals.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Tinkle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinkle. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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