Example Sentences

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In the hours before the final, Pan Wenge’s silver headdress jingles and jangles as she speaks enthusiastically, preparing to cheer on Dongmen village.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2024

As Dionysus’s nonbinary energy jangles the wiring of the staid suburbanites, releasing something wild in them, it also unleashes something wild in the play.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2019

I’ve never listened to heavy rock or stuff that jangles my nerves, because I’m already jangled.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2017

I simply cannot shake the idea that a telephone is something black and Bakelite that sits on a shelf and is never moved and jangles, at most, a couple of times a week.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2014

The bell above the clinic door jangles as she leaves.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord