jangly

Example Sentences

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The arrangement seems to track her movements like a camera, beginning with a jangly and optimistic guitar figure and acquiring heaviness and density as it goes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Summed up by Pavlovic as "jangly guitars and chanted layered vocals", it's both richly harmonic and somewhat ramshackle - born of a decision to embrace spontaneity and leave studio mistakes intact.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

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

By adding amplifiers to their guitars, they created the jangly Byrds sound that took them to the top of the charts.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

I stare at her fancy turtleneck sweater and big jangly earrings.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden