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tintinnabulate

verb as in chime

verb as in ring

verb as in tinkle

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Example Sentences

It recalled an earlier passage in which they had picked up small, tintinnabulating obelisks.

Her hormones tintinnabulating as usual, one senses the critical mass for playing around has been reached.

The ribbed pianos tintinnabulated harshly with songs cut from the squalid sheets of Sunday papers: in unseen basements children whined, while on the mantelpiece garish vases rattled to the vibration of traffic.

I presume it was her spirit you heard tintinnabulating.

The Latin name for the kestrel is tinnunculus, lit. a little ringer, derived from the verb tinnire, to clink, jingle, "tintinnabulate."

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

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