tinkling

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Step closer and you hear the contraption appearing to breathe, a tinkling sound like wind chimes emanating from the cooling mechanism that keeps its innards colder than outer space.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

Heavy gold jewelry encircled her neck and wrists and dangled from her nose and earlobes, so that every movement created a tinkling rustle of metal against metal.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2023

The gentle tinkling of cowbells is a sound almost everyone associates with Switzerland.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2023

That’s because a couple of ensembles actually did feature what looked like shards of glass artfully adorning a skirt or a top, and leaving a tinkling sound in their wake.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2023

“On the walls? Dragon,” shouted the wizard called Horace, as, with a deafening grinding and tinkling, the chandelier screwed itself back into the ceiling.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling