jangle

Example Sentences

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A grin plays across his face as the unmistakable jangle of Tim McGraw’s “I Like It, I Love It” wafts through the room.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

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

The big marshals stood her on the curb and a jangle of jeering shrieks went up from behind the barricades.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck