Example Sentences

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Coats and pocketbooks come studded with nailheads, bells will tinkle along skirt hems, and shoes now have metal toggles and linked brass loops.

From Time Magazine Archive

Convinced that "everyone is tired of unmelodious music," Friml hopes that his first new operetta since 1934, a "real Frenchie" confection called Rendezvous in Paris, will tinkle onto Broadway during the coming season.

From Time Magazine Archive

His playwright hero, mimed with manic-depressive animation by Bob Dishy, thinks his typewriter will tinkle merrily again if he can re-create his old home setting, complete with cockroaches and nagging Yiddish mama.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its jewels will tinkle on thy skirt like the silver bells on the High Priest's robe.

From The Coming of the King by Babcock, Bernie

"Now lie down and sleep, and if there is any danger I will tinkle my bell and awaken you."

From Uncle Wiggily's Travels by Garis, Howard Roger