Like the short high ringing sound of a small bell.
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Examples for "tinkling "
Examples for "tinkling "
1 The wind carries away in glee the tinkling of your anklet bells.
2 A bell tinkling somewhere in the house wakened Robin the next morning.
3 The tinkling of the bell ceased, and suddenly the door flew open.
4 The Netherlands became the land of melodious symphonies and of tinkling bells.
5 Shortly after eleven-thirty Jonas appeared in the doorway with two tinkling glasses.
1 She trembled: the glass fell to the floor with a tinkly crash.
2 She gave a tinkly little laugh and then a curiously long sigh.
3 Jerry looked at her curiously; there was something familiar in that tinkly laugh.
4 It starts with a tinkly orchestral score John Lewis would be proud of.
5 He hears tinkly music he knows well from hours spent playing computer solitaire.
6 Land they did, and traded seventeen gold disks for just three tinkly bells!
7 She was French, from Virginia, and she talked like little tinkly notes of music.
8 Diamonds, emeralds, pearls, tinkly little bracelets, all hot, all radioactive.
9 The phone came on with a tinkly little tune.
10 Turning on the tinkly tune before noon and after 7pm is also out of the question.
11 Not loud-notvery near but so clear not one of the littlest, tinkly notes was lost.
12 It was a tinkly , reedy instrument, for none of that household had any turn for music.
13 The huge concourse echoed with the sound of train announcements and the tinkly din of recorded Christmas carols.
14 And the tinkly little old piano?
15 Irina laughs, and she sounds like Mira, that same tinkly sound, like glassware clinking in a merry toast.
16 She gave a tinkly little laugh.
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