plink
Example Sentences
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Here’s a kalimba, an African thumb piano with metal tines that plink like a music box.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2021
Right up top, her “uh uh” and “hee-hee” and “look, listen, shut up” over the doo-wop plink are funny.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020
And so just on the day I said, “This is kind of weird, maybe plink the piano.”
From The Verge ● Dec. 4, 2019
He employed an orchestra, climbed inside a piano to plink its strings with a bobby pin, and incorporated everyday sounds like keys jangling or dogs barking into the songs.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 4, 2015
As we ate, we threw the bones out the window, plink, into the water.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
