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.
was jingling
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past progressiveof jingle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Curto’s jacket pocket was jingling with about two dozen collectible Beatles coins.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2022
Roosevelt and his party arrived first, and in a few moments the reception room was jingling with the clink of glasses and gold braid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Someone was jingling bells, too, and for a moment I thought of Christmas and sleigh bells.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
"A fine old place, is it not?" asked the Captain, while a cracked bell was jingling in remote distance, amidst the drowsy summer stillness, without eliciting so much as the bark of a house-dog.
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Before a reply could reach him, he had closed the door and was jingling his spurs along the passage to a spiral stairway of broad concrete steps.
From The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London
