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- noun Plural form of
tinkle .
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Examples
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More often it sleeps, and smiles in its sleep; and then the lighter and unconsidered coinage tinkles as it rolls under the impulse of playfully indifferent touches.
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He never brings his wife, though; but Mother's always asking for her, clear and distinct, and she always smiles, and her voice kind of tinkles like little silver bells.
Mary Marie 1920
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He never brings his wife, though; but Mother's always asking for her, clear and distinct, and she always smiles, and her voice kind of tinkles like little silver bells.
Mary Marie 1894
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The coral actually "tinkles" like wind chimes each time the waves lap up on shore.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The bell over the door tinkles its bright tune and I turn towards the sound, eyes skimming the front window as I do.
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We have held the north-east trade for days now, and the miles roll off behind us as the patent log whirls and tinkles on the taffrail.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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She saw a pinpoint of light, far away, kaleidoscoping larger and brighter, a collage of colors filled with the music of the universe, soft tinkles in different tones.
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The soundtrack is wall-to-wall sinister tinkles; sporadic chapter cards – "The Devils Grave Raider's Breath" sic – prove more baffling than useful.
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Ten minutes later the bell tinkles again and Lon cracks the door.
The Last of Boland Kilean Kennedy 2011
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Not that it lacks more straightforward ways of hitting the dancefloor sweet spot: Flashy Flashy is asweetly irresistible singspiel duet between Allien and a pitched-down version of herself, while on highlights Our Utopie and Ever, she allies music-box tinkles to big, banging techno grooves tosuperb effect.
Ellen Allien: Dust 2010
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