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Recent Examples of tinkle
Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
Some of the nuts landed with a metallic tinkle.
—Kiliii Yüyan, History & Culture, 17 Dec. 2020
Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The cocktail hour’s soundtrack was a mariachi band, Los Campos, and loads of tinkling marimba by Tono 13.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2024
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Noun
Outside the window, light glints off the pool, and a stone waterfall tinkles.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
Some of the nuts landed with a metallic tinkle.
—Kiliii Yüyan, History & Culture, 17 Dec. 2020
Verb
Gone is Greenwell’s glittering ceremony, the long sentences tinkling with semicolons.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The cocktail hour’s soundtrack was a mariachi band, Los Campos, and loads of tinkling marimba by Tono 13.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinkle
Noun
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Other residents in New Hampshire and Rhode Island also reported the rattle.—
Stephen Sorace,
Fox News,
27 Jan. 2025
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The collar’s microphone and sensors can detect rattlesnakes by listening for the sound of a rattle, or detect if a pet goes missing or is kidnapped.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
15 Oct. 2024
Verb
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The Maha season refused to mark its beginning, so the sounds of the irrigation tanks clinked and rattled through the city, promising water amid the drought.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the crowd, her husband, Jay-Z, clinked glasses with fellow nominee Taylor Swift.—
Caché McClay,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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You're seated up high, deafened by the clatter and bangs from the empty, boxy body, which, again, is exactly like that built on a traditional truck.—
Tim Stevens,
Ars Technica,
22 Feb. 2025
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The familiar clatter of the mahjong tiles being slammed against the table is drowned out by the sounds played by the DJ traveling through the warehouse.—
Claire Turrell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The video includes footage of a set of handcuffs and chains jingling as they are pulled from a basket containing other shackles and then laid out on the airport tarmac next to four other sets of restraints.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
18 Feb. 2025
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The Decca Christmas Recordings jingles 19-15, surpassing its prior No. 17 high – and marking a new best rank for Lee over her 61-plus-year span of appearing on the chart.—
Jim Asker,
Billboard,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Though this installation of tintinnabulation has been a feature of the garden for more than a decade, some frequent visitors only noticed the chimes this summer, when a small crew recently installed them in a large linden tree adjacent to Parade Stadium.—
Kim Hyatt,
Star Tribune,
23 July 2021
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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2021
Verb
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Also, a ringing sound from a stringed musical instrument (especially a guitar) Word 3 (bottom left) hint — something of importance.—
Kris Holt,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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When Ruby Franke’s 12-year-old son managed to escape from counselor Jodi Hildebrandt’s Utah house in August 2023 by crawling out a window and ringing a neighbor’s doorbell, the wounds on his hands and feet were covered with bloody duct tape.—
Claudia Rosenbaum,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Tinkle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinkle. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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