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[ US /ˈdʒæŋɡəɫ/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒˈæŋɡə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. make a sound typical of metallic objects
    The keys were jingling in his pocket
NOUN
  1. a metallic sound
    the jingle of coins
    the jangle of spurs

How To Use jangle In A Sentence

  • The lazy summer scene was a very poor objective correlative to my current mood of leaping anxiety and jangled suspense. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • Their necks and chests were glinting in gold and their wrists jangled loudly with even more jewelry.
  • He was not at all jockeyish to look at, though; he had a round black head and a well-trimmed black beard, bright eyes like a bird’s; he jingled money in his pockets; he jangled a great gold watch chain; and he never turned up except dressed just too much like a gentleman to be one. The Complete Father Brown
  • I closed my eyes as the water frothed, the steady hum of the motor soothing my jangled nerves. Haven
  • They're wrapped up in jangle and glisten in the sun, smelling like a new cassette. Music (For Robots): July 2006 Archives
  • Emerson really means to ‘accept,’ as he puts it, ‘the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies’.
  • A limb jangles into view, followed in unhasty succession by a second, third, and fourth, bearing a hundred and forty pounds of body between them. INSIDE OF A DOG
  • It's hard to say exactly where it started, but The Beatles and The Byrds often get the most credit for starting the enduring subgenre that's come to be known as jangle pop. Paste Magazine
  • His half-cocked smile and his standpat spurs really jingle my jangle. The DC Damsel: The Top Five Reasons I'd Boff Dick Cheney
  • We waited another minute, till finally we heard keys jangle and a masculine throat-clearing.
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