tinkle
verb (used without object)
to give forth or make a succession of short, light, ringing sounds, as a small bell.
had tinkled
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past perfectof tinkle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He hadn't stirred since his first, involuntary and almost imperceptible start, and before the last fragment of splintered glass had tinkled on the floor above, he was calming her in the most matter-of-fact manner.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance
At the Westfall farm as the electric vanguard of the storm flashed brightly over the valley, the telephone had tinkled.
From Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple
A little bell had tinkled sharply, and a light had flashed up on the attachments to the apparatus.
From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
I hurled myself between them, and had such difficulty in wresting the blackthorn from the madman's grasp that his hand was bleeding, and something had tinkled on the pavement, when I tore it from him.
From Witching Hill by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Keeonekh would slide out upon the ice shelf, and hump his back, and begin to eat almost before the last bubble had tinkled behind him.
From Secret of the Woods by William Joseph Long
