Example Sentences
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There’s only so many ways to make guitar tinkles.
From The Verge ● Sep. 15, 2021
Your eyes dart from package to package as the theme song from “The Little Mermaid” tinkles in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
There’s a funny wink to hyper-Romantic excess when a glockenspiel tinkles above the fray at the end of the finale.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2019
“Though the sun’s eclipse seems final/surely he will rise again,” Ferry sings of his Jesus-figure, while an Elizabethan harpsichord tinkles below.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2017
This door has a bell that tinkles when I push it open, like the one to the tea shop.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
