Example Sentences

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Roberts doesn’t offer much empathy for the poor, diseased critter other than a pause when Ben momentarily ponders his reflection in a pool as Adrian Johnston’s eerie synth-piano score tinkles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

There’s only so many ways to make guitar tinkles.

From The Verge • Sep. 15, 2021

As the New York Times critic Jon Pareles observed in his review, “The music drones and burbles, tinkles and undulates, taking its time and lingering over instrumental stretches.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2018

We are in London, a long way from Charlottesville, and a piano tinkles nearby.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2017

Whether it will pick up the saved or cast out the lost is unclear yet to Pupo, who picks up his empty glass and, for comfort, tinkles the ice.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez