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

Michaela hit a piano key, a high note, plink, plink, plink, and my hands began to go numb, disappear, like they always did when I was nervous.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2017

The pianos plink along softly; it sounds as if a dozen are playing all ar once, as if the sound comes from every point of the compass.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr