tinkle

Shards of glass tinkle to the ground, and a flood of moonlight washes through the basement.

He also wrote a poem about bells, bells, and more bells, ringing and clanging and jangling away, from tinkling sleigh bells like those of a troika, to the deep, basso tolling of funeral bells.

“It goes to show you: You get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you. It’s like a manhood thing with him — as if manhood can be associated with him.”

The tinkling of piano keys can be heard from a single-storey workshop.

This is not a concert in which the lead singer will occasionally tinkle the ivories for effect.