tinkle
verb (used without object)
to give forth or make a succession of short, light, ringing sounds, as a small bell.
is tinkling
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present progressiveof tinkle (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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The brook is tinkling as it goes, And with the myrtle and the rose Its shady banks adorning; While, from the flowery mead near by, The sheep and shepherd's joyful cry Salutes the early morning.
From Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
Stutuo!...” replies Garrigou; and all the time the cursed little bell is tinkling there in their ears, like the jingles they put on post-horses to make them gallop fast.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
Now it is tinkling in a grey Moravian school, now it dawns upon the Adige and begins in Alsace, now it has reached Madrid, Paris, London.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Still 319 farther away, somebody, in one of the deep-shadowed porches, is tinkling a ukelele, and somebody that I can’t see is somewhere beating a rug.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
Lloyd is tinkling below me on the typewriter; my wife has just left the room; she asks me to say she would have written had she been well enough, and hopes to do it still.
From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson
