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

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

Listen as the cash register sounds of “Money” plink out of your speakers the instant Dorothy emerges into the world of color and first glimpses the Yellow Brick Road.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2013

One by one, they dropped into a tin can with a dull plink, and the surgeon then began sewing up the wound.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong