tinkle
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A heavy quiet hangs over Theofilou's farm in the absence of the bleats from the sheep and the tinkle of their bells.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
This is not a concert in which the lead singer will occasionally tinkle the ivories for effect.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2025
But the darned toy has been blaring “Swan Lake” since “Ballerina” started and, to our annoyance, it’ll tinkle a few more times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
But what if those bells are right outside your bedroom window day and night, and rather than tinkle gently, clang loudly around the necks of 20 or 30 cows?
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023
You could hear the tinkle of ice in a lemonade pitcher.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
There’s only so many ways to make guitar tinkles.
From The Verge ● Sep. 15, 2021
Your eyes dart from package to package as the theme song from “The Little Mermaid” tinkles in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
The music drones and burbles, tinkles and undulates, taking its time and lingering over instrumental stretches as if people are still willing to experience a whole album from start to finish.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
“Though the sun’s eclipse seems final/surely he will rise again,” Ferry sings of his Jesus-figure, while an Elizabethan harpsichord tinkles below.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2017
But before I can talk myself into heading back into the rain, the bell tinkles again.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
“He loved it. Coach Wooden would be tinkled pink. He loved Ann Meyers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
And, music to my little ears, ice cubes tinkled cocktail glasses to the tune of Perry Como singing “Silent Night.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021
Following the meeting, Christmas music tinkled and several housemates prepared dinner while she stared out the window.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2018
Michael Jackson, we just sat upstairs in this office and I tinkled on the piano and we just made up a song there.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2017
Glass tinkled; pieces of wood were ripped, groaning, from a wall.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
Jefferson’s default prose is 18th-century elevator music, clear and tinkling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
I wish it sounded like tinkling bells and xylophones.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
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
René opens the music box, and a tinkling music begins to play, the same song heard long ago in his Damascus sitting room.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
The tinkling sounds are the spoons hitting each other in the breeze.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
