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tinkle

verb as in jingle, ring

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When the news came out that Jackie director Pablo Larraín had cast her as Princess Diana, it sounded as if genius had struck with the perfectly tuned tinkle of a sterling dinner bell.

From Time

The third line runs thus: “How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night.”

We observe that as “time” is here repeated three times, so “tinkle” was repeated three times in the third line.

The blind came down with a rush, there was a little tinkle of glass, and the general staggered back with his hand to his shoulder.

Tinkle, tinkle went the bells The reindeer lifted their hoofs higher and pawed at the comforter.

The brook was whispering secret things, and the drip from the trees made a soft tinkle, just detectable, on its pools.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tinkle, such as: chime, chink, clink, ding, jangle, and sound.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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