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Recent Examples of tinkle
Noun
Outside the window, light glints off the pool, and a stone waterfall tinkles.—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023 Some of the nuts landed with a metallic tinkle.—Kiliii Yüyan, History & Culture, 17 Dec. 2020
Verb
Guests in silk blouses and slacks sipped scotch while the piano man tinkled the keys.—Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024 That had to have felt like Old Man Winter tinkling on his shoulder.—Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tinkle
Shaking and rolling helps develop hand-eye coordination and promotes dexterity, and one parent tester appreciated the wooden rattle’s ability to foster independent play for her baby.
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Pamela Brill,
Parents,
22 May 2025
This means the rattles were likely part of their regular production, and may have been sold on the market along with cups and bowls.
After more than two centuries clinking in pockets, lining dusty piggy banks and being flung into fountains along with a wish, the U.S. penny is preparing for retirement.
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Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
Even after hours in the hot sun, the ice inside is still clinking around.
And that repeating first couplet — which comprises six of the poem’s 18 lines and occupied the first day of this challenge — will surely jingle in your pocket for a long time to come.
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A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.
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Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
Though this installation of tintinnabulation has been a feature of the garden for more than a decade, some frequent visitors only noticed the chimes this summer, when a small crew recently installed them in a large linden tree adjacent to Parade Stadium.
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