How To Use Jingling In A Sentence

  • And when they turned in the drive and Teddy and Hal walked off to the barn, the sleighbells jingling like Christmas chimes in the air, they shouted "hooray" again, one and all. Half-Past Seven Stories
  • Mr. Trancas was still outside the house whistling happily, bur his footsteps had stopped, and Lenny could h, ear keys jingling. THE TEACHER
  • In the meantime, he tries quintain, a kind of jousting on foot, stoolball, dating from the 15th century and still played today, and jingling, where a man wearing bells is chased by a group of blindfolded women. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • He read aloud the jingling epistle to his own great-great-grandfather, which, like the rest, concludes with a broad hint, that as the author had neither lands nor flocks -- "no estate left except his designation" -- the more fortunate kinsman who enjoyed, like Jason of old, a fair share of _fleeces_, might do worse than bestow on him some of King James's _broad pieces_. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
  • She readjusted her jingling belled hat.
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  • Then, when the wool was wetted, or when some other teams behind disputed the right of way in lurid terms which Lady Bridget was now beginning to accept as inevitably concomitant with bullocks, the first dray would proceed, all the cattle bells jingling and making, in the distance, not unpleasant music. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
  • Hearing her earrings jingling, I easily pictured her nodding like a lapdog.
  • The keys were jingling in his pocket
  • He picked up his ring of keys and sorted through them, searching to the sound of jingling metal.
  • The jingling of bicycle bells vibrated in his ears.
  • I never hear the musical jingling of splintered glass, but my _porte-monnaie_ gives a convulsive throb in my breast-pocket. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
  • Eva stood, flinging her arms up in the air, her bracelets jingling like tiny silver bells.
  • As I'm pausing to take a few photographs of the black cat, I hear mewing and jingling and here's this second cat, climbing the front steps and posing with an attitude of ownership.
  • Beneath the darkening sky, wranglers make final adjustments to harnesses and jingling bells as the teams of locomotive-size draft horses shift impatiently, clouds of steam puffing from their noses.
  • It made me realise why advertising tunelets are called ‘jingles,’ because it is jingling like a cluster of unmelodious bells in my brain.
  • Between themselves they arrange that the wedding shall take place when next Pizarro makes his monthly visit to Seville to give an account of his stewardship, and the jailer admonishes the youthful pair to put money in their purses in a song of little distinction, but containing some delineative music in the orchestra suggesting the rolling and jingling of coins. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
  • But it is entirely possible to teach the child too thoroughly in this respect and to make him so fond of his jingling pennies safe within a yellow crockery pig or iron cupolaed mansion that be will not spend them for any object, however laudable. Study of Child Life
  • cheepy-teet-teet" of the Pine Grosbeak, only louder and more broken, changing to the jingling of Blackbirds in spring, mixed with some Bluejay "jay-jays," and a Robin-like whistle; then I saw that it came from a Northern Shrike on the bushes just ahead of us. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
  • Those that in the passes of the mountain had lost their lances had provided themselves with the goads used by the Campo cattlemen: slender shafts of palm fully ten feet long, with a lot of loose rings jingling under the ironshod point. Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard
  • Christmas nears with a vengeance: its jingling bell like a tinkling lily in gelid fluff overhangs the premises where they sell alcoholic beverages and stuff.
  • We knew they had brought sheep with them, for they could be heard, baaing and jingling their bells, tho’ see them we could not.
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  • Truth compels me to state that the division was made honestly, and that little Stenne’s crime did not seem so terrible to him when he heard the coins jingling under his blouse, and thought of the games of galoche which he had in prospect. The Child Spy
  • And yet no sooner did I embrace the part, padding about in my jubbah and Ali Baba slippers, sipping mint tea, jingling my jewelry and letting my belly grow, than she accused me of being a crass vulgarian, an Oriental souk Jew with the taste for trumpery of a market trader from Waltham-stow. Kalooki Nights
  • prophecy" is sometimes used in Scripture (1Ch 25: 1; 1Co 11: 5). took a timbrel -- or "tabret" -- a musical instrument in the form of a hoop, edged round with rings or pieces of brass to make a jingling noise and covered over with tightened parchment like a drum. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Torrens (Pref.p. vii.) declares that "the effect of the irregular sentence with the iteration of a jingling rhyme is not pleasant in our language:" he therefore systematically neglects it and gives his style the semblance of being "scamped" with the object of saving study and trouble. Arabian nights. English
  • Abbey skipped up to the house, a silver bit and four coppers jingling in her apron pocket.
  • The keys were jingling in his pocket.
  • The robot puppy lollops over, its eyes flashing traffic-light green as it makes friendly jingling noises like a doorbell.
  • Mr. Trancas was still outside the house whistling happily, bur his footsteps had stopped, and Lenny could h, ear keys jingling. THE TEACHER
  • Bells tied to camels are jingling in the depth of the desert.
  • I felt the coins jingling in my pockets.
  • Truth compels me to state that the division was made honestly, and that little Stenne’s crime did not seem so terrible to him when he heard the coins jingling under his blouse, and thought of the games of galoche which he had in prospect. The Child Spy
  • No doubt many countries around the world - particularly those who have a few extra coins jingling in their emerging market pockets from selling crap to US consumers, would like to see the power of the US Dollar and thus the US of A significantly reduced. Why US Dollar will remain as World Reserve Currency!
  • With a rapid, jingling drive to the harbour in a two - wheeled machine (which Captain Mitchell called a curricle) behind a fleet and scraggy mule beaten all the time by an obviously Neapolitan driver, the cycle would be nearly closed before the lighted-up offices of the O.S. N. Company, remaining open so late because of the steamer. Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard
  • There was more speech amongst the Danes, and movement of horses, and jingling of bridle bits.
  • Princess, a gray tabby, ran away, the bell on her pink collar that bore her name jingling.
  • Yes, Master, " she said, and then, turning about, stumbling and crying, the bell of the Coin Girl sounding, the coins jingling in the box on her neck, she fled up the street. Guardsman Of Gor
  • Given that Interzone took its name from Burroughs's city, I think its fair to say that while "Jingling Geordie's Hole" lies, as I recall, at the extreme end of its output at that time, a certain "fucked-up" aesthetic was at play in those early days of the magazine, before Cyberpunk, before the New Space Opera, before the New Weird, or Mundane-SF, or even Infernokrusher. Why Do I Infernokrush?
  • With that, the kender wandered back outside City Hall, Phineas's knife in his small hands, Phineas's coins jingling in his pocket. Stalling
  • You have the RIGHT … to family and medical leave, to sue your employer for looking at you funny, to sue him for not firing someone else who looked at you funny, to sue that guy who owns the house you were breaking into when you hurt yourself, to inspect the coins jingling around in your pocket and not see those horrible letters G, O, D. House of Eratosthenes
  • She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her.
  • Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders — of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St. Michael of Pumpernickel were most conspicuous. Vanity Fair
  • I think he prefers hearing the sound of trickling water to the sound of extra coins jingling in our pockets. Archive 2007-12-01
  • Can the coins jingling in your pocket trace your movements? OpEdNews - Quicklink: That Jingle Jangle Jingle in Your Pocket Can Tell Tales
  • The likembe (similar to the mbira or kalimba) that gives the band its signature resonating, nuanced, jingling melody is hand crafted from items salvaged from a junkyard. Dustin Reid: Konono No 1's DIY Spirit Fills Prospect Park And Le Poisson Rouge (VIDEO, SLIDESHOW)
  • He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
  • Pomegranates jingling like sheep bells, the priest carries the shellful of water to the sacred enclosure. Skinny Legs and All
  • Male dancers stomp and leap while waving pieces of cloth and jingling bells.
  • The staccato beat of booted feet and armour jingling sounded almost musical.
  • Houses squatted beneath thick blankets of fresh snow and a horse-drawn sleigh clopped past, bells jingling.
  • Abbey skipped up to the house, a silver bit and four coppers jingling in her apron pocket.
  • They walked down to the car that way, Aaron's keys jingling in his pocket.
  • He was forced to compete with didgeridoos, a 10-piece samba band, three bagpipes, cow bells, tambourines, guitars and the enthusiastic jingling of the White Horse Morris troupe celebrating their 50th anniversary.
  • Sophia started to tug the Guard's navy dress coat, lightly jingling the badges on her left breast pocket.
  • Torrens (Pref.p. vii.) declares that “the effect of the irregular sentence with the iteration of a jingling rhyme is not pleasant in our language:” he therefore systematically neglects it and gives his style the semblance of being “scamped” with the object of saving study and trouble. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He tilted his head, his belled hat jingling faintly, when the king just sputtered, red-faced, instead of answering his question.
  • Still another one records Jingling people's borrowing of boats from Qianling County.
  • Candace walked silently beside us, earrings jingling with each step.
  • She had run out the door with my keys jingling in her hands.
  • “I see a buck's head!” cried Joe, looking down the dell, where the object he mentioned was distinctly observable amid a cluster of spicewood bushes, whence a slight jingling sound proceeded as the animal plucked the nutritious buds bent down by the innumerable icicles. Wild Western Scenes

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