jangly

Example Sentences

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Advance single “Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit” is bewitching and emotionally resonant, like someone whispering a story into your ear over a beautifully jangly guitar line.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

The soundtrack to the next 12 months will match cutting-edge pop with jangly guitar anthems.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

Due out Aug. 11 on Zaragoza’s own label, Rebel River Records, her album “Hold That Spirit” is a torrential cloudburst of jangly folk catharsis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023

Or how about this deadpan punchline on the jangly, crush-struck “Shelley”: “I wonder what she wants for dinner/She’s really got me looking inward.”

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

As Mrs. Lloyd pulled the bag of candy off the scale, the jangly bell rang over the shop door and stopped abruptly as the door slammed against the inside wall.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen