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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tinkle .
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Examples
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The word tinkled in her head with a supernatural echo, frozen in mystery, causing her to stir and rustle the funny papers so that she failed to hear the conclusion of her uncle's sentence:
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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The coin tinkled to a settlement, and we both stooped to read our respective fates ....
Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922
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Her twitching hands ploughed through the heap, and the coins tinkled among her fingers.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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The Marionette, seeing death dancing before him, trembled so hard that the joints of his legs rattled and the coins tinkled under his tongue.
Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1858
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-- how emptily, how foolishly the name tinkled out of that empty and foolish past!
The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880
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A dribble of coins tinkled from the blanket to the floor.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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I walked at once to the door, and Mr. Fairlie resignedly "tinkled" his hand-bell.
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1856
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Silvery streams tinkled down its crystal slopes; and in its clear depths seemed to unfold, veil on veil, the secrets of life and death and mortal striving, -- vistas of pale-shimmering azure opening like dream-visions, and promising, down there in the great cool heart, infinite rest, infinite cessation and rest.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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Again bottle and glass tinkled together, and both men drank eyes to eyes and each was aware that the eyes he gazed into were honest and understanding.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Dressed for the dance in what looked like a harem girl costume, Joy even wore finger cymbals and bracelets of tiny bells on her wrists and ankles that tinkled and chattered as her hands waved softly around her body.
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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