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Recent Examples of tinkle
Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
Some of the nuts landed with a metallic tinkle.
—Kiliii Yüyan, History & Culture, 17 Dec. 2020
Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2024
On a Friday night, the room tinkled with the sound of voices just a decade out of summer camp and maybe five years out of the Midwest.
—Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2024
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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
The cocktail hour’s soundtrack was a mariachi band, Los Campos, and loads of tinkling marimba by Tono 13.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2024
On a Friday night, the room tinkled with the sound of voices just a decade out of summer camp and maybe five years out of the Midwest.
—Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinkle
Noun
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The collar’s microphone and sensors can detect rattlesnakes by listening for the sound of a rattle, or detect if a pet goes missing or is kidnapped.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
15 Oct. 2024
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Which brings up a second paradox: Dudamel always seems most energized with scores full of rhythmic rattle and percussive excitement, pieces that demand pinpoint exactitude and a knack for assembling large, coherent structures out of jagged shards.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2024
Verb
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The 27-year-old gold medalist then shared a photo of herself and Owens clinking champagne flutes with a hotel suite in the background.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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Swift was seen on camera clinking champagne glasses with Beyoncé's husband, Jay-Z, after the Cowboy Carter artist accepted her Grammy onstage on Feb. 2.—
Lindsay Kimble,
People.com,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The familiar clatter of the mahjong tiles being slammed against the table is drowned out by the sounds played by the DJ traveling through the warehouse.—
Claire Turrell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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Restaurants are noisier than ever, with each clatter and shout threatening our health (not to mention our sanity).—
Jessica Iredale,
airmail.news,
6 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The Decca Christmas Recordings jingles 19-15, surpassing its prior No. 17 high – and marking a new best rank for Lee over her 61-plus-year span of appearing on the chart.—
Jim Asker,
Billboard,
31 Dec. 2024
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Shoppers find last-minute Christmas gifts at area businesses Bells jingled on shop doors as people wandered in and out of stores searching for last-minute gifts on Christmas Eve in Northwest Arkansas.—
Gael Langdon,
arkansasonline.com,
24 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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.—
Kim Hyatt,
Star Tribune,
23 July 2021
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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2021
Verb
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Instead of ringing the bell — which often signals the end of chemotherapy treatment — the boy sounds the boxing ring bell by punching the pull cord.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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The alarm was at once sounded by ringing the school bell and the fire department responded and had water on in a very short time, but the fire being all through the building inside the walls and partitions, its progress could not be checked.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Tinkle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinkle. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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