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jingle

[jing-guhl] / ˈdʒɪŋ gəl /


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The jingle first aired in the 1990s and has been loved and loathed by listeners ever since.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Rose has never penned an ad slogan or crafted a jingle.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the school he co-founded in 2001, is vibrating with its usual joyful jingle on this warm spring morning.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

The single opens with the sound of jingle bells being briskly rung.

From Salon Dec. 23, 2025

The shop door opened with a jingle, and Brother McKinnon and his son and daughter came bumping out with their washing machine on a dolly.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

His first success came with jingles for brands like State Farm — “Like a Good Neighbor” is his handiwork — and Band-Aid.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

In turn, an expanding roster of immersive, cinematic TV made the medium’s cheesy jingles and pandering copy look and sound discordant.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2026

Store workers blow giant colorful bubbles and throw boomerangs around, while jingles from electric toys and whirls from their wheels mingle with the chatter of shoppers’ conversations.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

DiBergi finds Tufnel working as a cheesemonger in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Smalls as the proprietor of London glue museum and St Hubbins living in Los Angeles making answering machine jingles.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2025

A brass bell jingles when I open the door.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

San Francisco International and Miami International Airports jingled with $52,558 and $47,694, respectively.

From Washington Times Aug. 23, 2020

Bert jingled his black change purse with a sly grin.

From The Guardian Dec. 28, 2018

During Friday’s demonstration, nearly everyone in the crowd raised their arms, keys in hand, and jingled them together, a symbol of the peaceful protests of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that turned out the Communist government.

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2018

We make repeat visits to Chili’s for the famously jingled baby back ribs or to Carl’s Jr. for the Western bacon cheeseburger. Chains deliver unique and specific flavors, tastes you can’t get anywhere else.

From Washington Post Dec. 18, 2015

Gold, silver, and copper coins jingled over the flagstone floor, clinking as they gathered in heaps under the benches—more and more and more of them.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Some walkers carried jingling shells to mark their previous participation in another very long walk: the Camino de Santiago.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

On a lush cricket ground outside Colombo the sharp jingling of a ball cuts through the afternoon air.

From Barron's Nov. 22, 2025

As a member of the U.S. team, Alvaro Mora Arellano stations himself along the sideline, waiting for the jingling ball to come his way.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2024

In the end, it wasn’t the bell that signaled something was up, but the jingling of a court officer’s keys — a ring full of them clanking as Maj.

From Seattle Times May 30, 2024

"We could eat a bushel!" she exclaimed, jingling a handful of coins.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman




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