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

He extended the bell idea with the jangly celeste, also known as a bell piano, and he augmented those bells with a small string ensemble, a choir and, at one point, even an electric guitar.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

By adding amplifiers to their guitars, they created the jangly Byrds sound that took them to the top of the charts.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

“Be careful, Abilene. That old woman might have more up her sleeves than jangly bracelets.”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool