tinkle
verb (used without object)
to give forth or make a succession of short, light, ringing sounds, as a small bell.
were tinkling
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past progressiveof tinkle.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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He moved his bony hands in his pockets, which were tinkling with new dimes.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
But listen: when I was here the Palmer House was the newly built wonder of the West, the streets were tinkling with bobtail horse-cars.
From Money Magic A Novel by Hamlin Garland
Some were tinkling on a sort of guitars, and some were tooting on a kind of flutes, and some were scraping on wretched fiddles.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
The bells on the grazing horses were tinkling, and from sparkling fires, thin columns of smoke arose.
From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland
After a few hours' travel we came upon the grassy shore of another little lake, where the bells of several outfits were tinkling merrily.
From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland
