jangle
Example Sentences
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A jangle of keys, a twist of a doorknob, and we’re inside our flat.
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He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”
I shook the bag at my elbow and heard the jangle of my coins.
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He also wrote a poem about bells, bells, and more bells, ringing and clanging and jangling away, from tinkling sleigh bells like those of a troika, to the deep, basso tolling of funeral bells.
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He tried to calm his nerves, which had been jangled by the unusually strong earthquake.
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