jingle
verb (used without object)
to make clinking or tinkling sounds, as do coins, keys, or other light, resonant metal objects when coming into contact or being struck together repeatedly.
is jingling
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present progressiveof jingle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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He’s hitting balls, and his dad is giving instructions, and Earl is jingling change and throwing coins at him and Tiger is still crushing drives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2020
That pudgy little plumber is jingling all the way to the bank.
From Time Magazine Archive
That song is jingling in my head again.
From The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss
They turn in silent surprise and find that the waiter has just come back from the bar in the garden, and is jingling his tray warningly as he comes softly to the table with it.
From You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw
We live among bankers and City big-wigs, and be hanged to them, and every man, as he talks to you, is jingling his guineas in his pocket.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
