jangly
Example Sentences
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The arrangement seems to track her movements like a camera, beginning with a jangly and optimistic guitar figure and acquiring heaviness and density as it goes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Summed up by Pavlovic as "jangly guitars and chanted layered vocals", it's both richly harmonic and somewhat ramshackle - born of a decision to embrace spontaneity and leave studio mistakes intact.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
Or how about this deadpan punchline on the jangly, crush-struck “Shelley”: “I wonder what she wants for dinner/She’s really got me looking inward.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
His instantly timeless songs traverse funk-soul brotherhood, with walking bass lines, jangly chords, percussive wallop and a vocal tone that drips with Cali cool.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2022
“Please,” Jonah said, and he was proud of himself, that he’d managed to say that much when he was feeling so jangly and strange.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
