- present participle of jangle.
jangling
Example Sentences
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Trump used a fat black marker pen to sign the deal, with the crockery jangling on the table after the dinner or lobster and caviar, as he put pen to paper.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
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
But with Somerset hopes rising and Glamorgan nerves jangling, Dickson fell in the 18th over trying to reverse-sweep Gorvin and clothing a catch to short third man.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024
A jangling set of house keys was once synonymous with American success: the striver’s ultimate prize.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
An electric current seemed to course through Harry, jangling his every nerve as he stood rooted to the spot.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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