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tinkle

verb as in jingle, ring

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The tinkling of piano keys can be heard from a single-storey workshop.

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This is not a concert in which the lead singer will occasionally tinkle the ivories for effect.

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Whenever he discovers some pretty little thing, the frame momentarily transforms into a commercial for excess, with a gleaming image of his unearthed treasure floating onscreen as a heavenly glissando tinkles in the background.

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René opens the music box, and a tinkling music begins to play, the same song heard long ago in his Damascus sitting room.

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The hangers in the closets clashed and tinkled.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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