plink

Example Sentences

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Here’s a kalimba, an African thumb piano with metal tines that plink like a music box.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2021

And so just on the day I said, “This is kind of weird, maybe plink the piano.”

From The Verge • Dec. 4, 2019

He employed an orchestra, climbed inside a piano to plink its strings with a bobby pin, and incorporated everyday sounds like keys jangling or dogs barking into the songs.

From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2015

John Tiffany’s direction demands that all the actors play instruments, and Steven Hoggett’s choreography has them up and dancing while they plink and pluck and strum.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014

The pianos plink along softly; it sounds as if a dozen are playing all ar once, as if the sound comes from every point of the compass.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr