tinkling

IPA: tˈɪŋkʌɫɪŋ

noun

  • A tinkle; a tinkling sound.
  • (Jamaica) The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
  • The action of the verb to tinkle

adjective

  • That tinkles.
  • (obsolete) That works as a tinker
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Examples of "tinkling" in Sentences

  • 'tinkling' of Peter's hammer to know a brief respite.
  • Later, the bishop led me across his red shag carpet to a white fountain tinkling in the corner of his office.
  • Because of the years of subjecting my eardrums to the sounds of high energy dance music, I thought he said "tinkling".
  • a small kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies 'education, Dorothea went up to her room to answer
  • I could hear the sound of ice being scooped and dropped into tumblers, the sound of adults walking past with the liquid and frozen water making "tinkling" noises around me.
  • At nine o'clock went to the Vatican; two large fantails with ostrich feathers; ladies penned up; Pope; cardinals kiss his hand in rotation; address in Latin, tinkling, like water gurgling from a bottle.
  • After dinner, when Celia was playing an "air, with variations," a small kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies 'education, Dorothea went up to her room to answer Mr. Casaubon's letter.
  • The day begins with dazzling light which is described as "tinkling bright silk thread" and "blazing needlework", where "one line springs from another, like vein branching from vein on a birch leaf, or the back of one's hand, or a precious stone".

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