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
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  • 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.
  • We climb all day, the hot air silent but for the jangle of cowbells.
  • She nervously looked around, trying to soothe her jangled nerves by taking in the trendy, understated décor. I.O.U.
  • With fumbling fingers, I slowly took my change from her gentle flour-dusted palms and prayed that she was just a little podgy and not pregnant, catching her eye for another one of those smiles as I jangled out of the door.
  • As a result, I’m 95 percent of the way to my goal, and extra coins jangle my pockets. Can you feel it? America's turning red, white and GREEN
  • He jangled the keys in his pocket.
  • Thu 10 Feb 05 20: 43 has anyone traced the word copasetic to a definite source before Mr. Bojangles? The WELL: West L.A. Fadeaway
  • In any case, in the past his scruffed-up skronk did a lot to reconcile the band's affable garage-pop jangle with lyrics about, say, killing cops. Chicago Reader
  • Emerson really means to ‘accept,’ as he puts it, ‘the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies’.
  • Aubrey's nerves jangled and he sought the air-conditioning of the funeral limousine. THE LAST RAVEN
  • Her bracelets jangled on her wrist.
  • The side door bell jangled alarmingly, and Cook was roused from her place by the fire. A caller?
  • There is a note of barbarism in the brassy jar and clamor of the instruments, enhanced by the bewildering ambition of each player to force through his piece the most noise and jangle, which is not always covered and subdued into a harmonious whole by the whang of the bass drum. Their Pilgrimage
  • Bojangles, the Mecca for all the crims and drug freaks, is the venue to make any family or business man cringe with fear and disgust.
  • Cute harmonies sit atop an orchestrated jangle of guitars and multi-layered harmonies and you just end being spun into their world of indie-reborn - a world for those really interested in music.
  • A jangle of locks being unlocked sounded and then the gate jerked open.
  • The bell jangled at midnight.
  • The film had so much potential to please the aesthetes, to assuage the jangled nerves.
  • The bell jangled against the door as it opened and in walked a handsome boy, dark with black hair.
  • Their necks and chests were glinting in gold and their wrists jangled loudly with even more jewelry.
  • Dishgushting," said Jingle's brother Jangle, who'd had a few snorts of glogg himself. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • 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 Father Brown Omnibus
  • The bell jangled at midnight.
  • “Teeth,” a riotous jangle-boogie, burns through scuzzy riffage and a get-your-body-moving bass line. Tonight at the Comet Tavern: Dancing Like Idiots « PubliCola
  • Her carving belt jangled, her axes and mallets hung in hand, and her dire wolf jogged beside her. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • The bells jangled and someone entered the diner.
  • Tired once more, I sighed and jangled the car keys and nodded to Michael with a mix of acknowledgment and gratitude for taking over.
  • No one seemed to embody the jangled nerves more than Magic Johnson. One Season
  • I heard the bells over the front door jangle as it swung open. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
  • He licked rainwater from his clothes to quench his raging thirst and jangled his keys to try to attract attention.
  • Tired once more, I sighed and jangled the car keys and nodded to Michael with a mix of acknowledgment and gratitude for taking over.
  • True, his jangled nerves played tricks with his game in the final round yesterday when he conceded the lead to fellow Antipodean, Michael Campbell.
  • His command of six strings incorporates a hair-raising degree of proficiency and versatility from tingling jangles to hypnotic jigs and ragged fragments of blues.
  • We react to stresses such as the jangle of telephones or the wailing of police sirens.
  • The piano is badly out of tune and jangles on my ears.
  • The metal buckles had jangled and flapped, which is how the name flapper came about. Futures Imperfect
  • The constant whine of the machinery jangled his nerves.
  • The sound of his heels on the wooden planks was a sturdy percussion, mixed in perfect time to the heavy rubbing of his sheath, and the jangle of the undone belts of his coat.
  • It's part of the curiosity of contemporary Japan that it presents you with some of the most jangled and mishmashed, unattractive urban landscapes in the world and yet, in many places, every little shop and cafe you enter will be immaculate and exquisite, whether it plays only Beatles records or Mozart. Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top
  • He jangled his keys in his pocket.
  • The harsh sound jangled his nerves.
  • As she fingered through them, searching for the one that would unlock the main door, the keys jangled, causing Rena to surreptitiously look around.
  • Her carving belt jangled, her axes and mallets hung in hand, and her dire wolf jogged beside her. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • A painful memory, injected with some still-rueful mirth recently, as I reread the Larry's memoir and beheld the dues he had paid and the jangled trip he had taken to find a suitably meaningful professional niche. David Murray: Working, in Chicago: An Emotional Guide for New Graduates
  • The piano is badly out of tune and jangles on my ears.
  • the jangle of spurs
  • Many is the time, as the weariness of my spirit witnesseth, that I have heard Sah-luma rehearse, -- but never in all my experience of his prolix multiloquence, hath he given utterance to such a senseless jingle-jangle of verse-jargon as to-night! Ardath
  • Kestilas voice floated through to him through the wooden door, the brown haired boy standing and causing a creak in the floorboards and a jangle of springs as he climbed into bed.
  • But suddenly he heard a jangle of disharmonic harpsong, and his shield was ripped away. Music to My Sorrow
  • Virgil is shown working in a fast-food restaurant wearing janglers' bells on his head like a harlequin, the fool's cap of working youth's subjugation, but he exits to save the life of a rapper.
  • The doctor changed thousands of lives forever with that procedure and psychosurgical techniques like it; he calmed some patients 'wildly jangled existences and condemned others to imprisonment in their immobilized bodies and minds. Stuff. And things.
  • The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries. Half a Dozen Girls
  • Africa, and the people in the market-place a lively and chromatic jangle; but the shadow of what we call inhumanity (when we are trying to persuade ourselves that humanity is something very different) chills and darkens the heart. Old Junk
  • It was soon interrupted by the harsh jangle of the telephone, which I let ring until Quinn shouted for me to pick it up.
  • Logan staggered up, jangled by the blast, and grabbed his hammer in numb fingers. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • Guards' keys jangled as you passed the idle silence and time of your life rotting away.
  • When it moved, it shook his vital organs as if he was standing on an earthquake simulator in a geology museum, and when it spoke, his nerves jumped and jangled in his body.
  • The wind-chimes jangled gently in the tree above us.
  • The waitress looked up when the bells jangled, signaling a customer.
  • Presently the bell at the door jangled as a group of customers left the café.
  • He does not dress them up with narrative; there is no story, just a jangle of exposed nerve endings.
  • In the cradle was a dirty little baby, licking its fist and listening with conscientious attention to the perpetual trangle-tringle-jangle of the maternal music. Doctor Claudius, A True Story
  • The metal buckles had jangled and flapped, which is how the name flapper came about. Futures Imperfect
  • The shop bell jangled loudly.
  • The piano is badly out of tune and jangles on my ears.
  • We were dining at Bruno's restaurant, La Taverne du Port, overlooking the quayside where a symphony of boats bobbed and jangled in the harbour.
  • Alternating between smoothly intoned mid-tempo rockers- dressed up with synth organs and tastefully overdriven guitar jangle- and smoothly intoned slow dance heart warmers that get a lot closer to Diane Warren territory than befits the man who wrote "Silver".
  • In the cradle was a dirty little baby, licking its fist and listening with conscientious attention to the perpetual trangle-tringle-jangle of the maternal music. Doctor Claudius, A True Story
  • We went to dinner at an Indian restaurant where sitars jangled in the background.
  • Then came the first of several magical moments that blew any notion of Young not being in complete control of his art and music as he sat down and blew us away with the acoustic jangle and buzz of Bandit.
  • Army, 'the professors said one to another, as, hardly stopping for a moment at the stranger's entrance, they continued to' jangle 'among themselves. A Book of Quaker Saints
  • Clothes queue up in the wardrobe, an echo to the eye, or a jangle of Euclid.
  • A minute later, the door opened, causing the bell above it to jangle.
  • The keys to the Jeep jangled loudly in my pocket, and I felt happier and happier as I got farther and farther away from everything I had found familiar.
  • The slightest irritation made my jangle and my head want to explode.
  • Dance, jazz, be-bop, 50s doo-wop, and standard jangle-pop all get thrown into the mix at varying points, while remaining inimitably in the thrall of their particular brand of noise.
  • Bartlett calls it the "indie summer song of the year", and I'm having a hard time coming up with a better candidate; the jangle is contagious and the singing is sincere and heart-melting. Music (For Robots): September 2005 Archives
  • Let ABC {Fig, 2.) be an oblique aneled Trjangle giveoy whofe Bafe is 15.4, and the Perpendicular The Complete Measurer: Or, The Whole Art of Measuring. In Two Parts. The First Part Teaching ...
  • The lazy summer scene was a very poor objective correlative to my current mood of leaping anxiety and jangled suspense. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • In Astaire's extraordinarily complex ‘Bojangles of Harlem,’ he dances by himself, with a proliferation of chorines, and finally with three massive rear-projection shadows of himself.
  • The city itself is a spectacle to behold, with dazzling lights, beeps and whistles, and the sound of change going ‘jingle jangle’ all night long.

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