jangle
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She recognized that there’s nothing more dramatic than human contradiction, the clash and jangle of self-image and public perception.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
Its improbable-seeming transitions — from post-punk jangle to boy-band crooning to hip-hop drum loops — are the source of the track’s infectious vitality.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
The jangle of keys, the heavy locks on every door can all make you forget you are in a hospital.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2022
Hearing the jangle of keys, Sabir, a senior from Afghanistan, emerges from the copy room.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2022
He blocks out the jangle of keys, the clang of cell doors opening, closing, the words, "Come with us. It is time."
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In the hours before the final, Pan Wenge’s silver headdress jingles and jangles as she speaks enthusiastically, preparing to cheer on Dongmen village.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
It’s the useful kind of confusion, though: the kind that jangles but does not preach — and the kind our theater needs more of.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2022
I’ve never listened to heavy rock or stuff that jangles my nerves, because I’m already jangled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2017
I simply cannot shake the idea that a telephone is something black and Bakelite that sits on a shelf and is never moved and jangles, at most, a couple of times a week.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2014
When the clinic bell jangles again, I peek up long enough to see Jason’s mother isn’t holding a guitar.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
As dusk fell, some activists put on goggles and helmets, carried makeshift shields, jangled tambourines and beat drums as they prepared for another standoff with law enforcement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
He jangled the prop handcuffs he was already wearing.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2023
One of her talents is rock band drummer and she uses her drumsticks to pound out her jangled feelings.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Hearts' nerves jangled slightly when Shankland was sent off in injury time - the captain given two questionable yellow cards after tangling twice with Rocky Bushiri.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2023
Something jangled as he moved; a set of keys, maybe, or loose coins in a pocket.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
After a 3-0 thrashing at Chelsea last week in the Champions League, followed by a shaky win over Alaves to claim pole position in La Liga, nerves were jangling among home fans.
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
Ekitike's goal - Liverpool's second, neatly driven under Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford - eventually settled a derby where nerves were jangling in the closing minutes, as David Moyes' improving Toffees posed a real threat.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
A jangling set of house keys was once synonymous with American success: the striver’s ultimate prize.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
Her eyes were all made up, earrings and bracelets jangling.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
