How To Use Tinkling In A Sentence
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Small boys waved their hands to us, the water-carrier carrying his tight goat-skin from the wells set his cups a-tinkling, as though by way of a God-speed, and then M'Barak touched his horse with the spur to induce the bravery of a caracole, and led us away from Djedida.
Morocco
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The opening vignette, ‘Lullaby for a Broken Dog’ is simple piano tinklings and a man's spoken words over the hiss and pop of a needle on an old record.
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It's soft female harmonies layered on top of tinkling bells, xylophones and other gentle, celestial sounds.
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Valerie heard sounds of the forest, the chirping of birds and the tinkling of water from a nearby spring.
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But through the wide streets and through the narrow ones, under the archways into the market gardens, across the bridge and into the square where the "glockenspiel" played its old tinkling tune, everywhere the Citadel looked down and always The Rat walked on in his dream.
The Lost Prince
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The gaudy decorations are out, the over sized Yuletide props have been forklifted into position by underpaid migrant workers, and the same CD played at this time every year since 1989 can be heard tinkling through the mall.
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All very fancy, with a pianist tinkling away in the background.
The Sun
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And that piano does keep tinkling in the background.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anthony threw himself back in his chair as the delicate tinkling began to pour out and overscore the soft cooing of a pigeon on the roofs somewhere and the murmur of bees through the open window.
By What Authority?
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Behind and in front, musicians played Lydian airs on flutes and pipes, shook sistra with their little tinkling bells, and clanged great cymbals.
Funeral Games
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After dinner, when Celia was playing an "air, with variations," a small kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies 'education, Dorothea went up to her room to answer Mr. Casaubon's letter.
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
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But as they grew, they took to following me everywhere, first cheeping like the tinkling of little bells, later clucking in animated adult discussion.
Birdology
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I was back where I belonged, tinkling the ivories, name on every bus shelter in town.
MR STARLIGHT
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sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal
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Is that the tinkling of wedding bells we can hear?
The Sun
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And hymns in the cozy parlor, the tinkling piano our guide.
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Heathrow's answer to this is a player piano tinkling merrily nearby.
Times, Sunday Times
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The advertisement, which has been lampooned mercilessly, shows her speaking in a soft voice against a smoky grey background and tinkling piano music.
Times, Sunday Times
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The melodies lay prettily embedded in tinkling bells and other atmospheric effects, but there was little worth remembering beyond the composer's good intentions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even when the tame _cabestro_ came, with tinkling bell, to entice Vivillo away, she could hardly bear to leave him, though she well knew that he was safe; that his wounds would be skilfully tended; that he would be restored to health, and that, in very shame (when the story was made known), Carmona must surrender the bull to her.
The Car of Destiny
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Heathrow's answer to this is a player piano tinkling merrily nearby.
Times, Sunday Times
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'tinkling' of Peter's hammer to know a brief respite.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
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At nine o'clock went to the Vatican; two large fantails with ostrich feathers; ladies penned up; Pope; cardinals kiss his hand in rotation; address in Latin, tinkling, like water gurgling from a bottle.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I.
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The reason I wanted to see this beach is because the book said that if, conditions were right, the sound of the waves hitting this unique shoreline of flat, shingle-like “pink rhyolite and felsite bedrock” makes a tinkling, bell-like sound.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal
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A muted, tinkling presence throughout, the piano is accompanied by the voices of melancholy oboe and sax.
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You can almost hear the tinkling of the royal princes as they glide through their palaces.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a lively sound, a busy tinkling, the incessant brattling and from time to time rushing, crashing sound of this falling ice, and trees suddenly erecting themselves when relieved of their loads.
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The meditative bits have been airbrushed out and replaced by weird little fantasy scenes with tinkling songs and piano music.
Times, Sunday Times
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Based on a circular pattern of groaning trumpets and feminine fluting of electronics, the piece bristles into dense, frictional clouds that eventually rain down light dustings of tinkling piano.
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And that piano does keep tinkling in the background.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tinkling piano and strings are overlaid with vernacular vocals, drums and flutes with synthesizers.
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Picture the many forms of water - from swelling surf to torrential rain to spouting geyser to limpid pool to sparkling bubbles to tinkling iceblocks to healing tears.
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Right!" replied Dale; and a minute later he caught the rings of hemp thrown to him, and rapidly knotted the middle round Saxe, the end to his own waist; and as he knotted, _click, click! chip, chip_! went the ice-axe, deftly wielded by the guide, who with two or three blows broke through enough of the crust to make a secure footing while the ice flew splintering down the slope in miniature avalanches, with a peculiar metallic tinkling sound.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
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tinkling bells
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The meditative bits have been airbrushed out and replaced by weird little fantasy scenes with tinkling songs and piano music.
Times, Sunday Times
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All very fancy, with a pianist tinkling away in the background.
The Sun
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The click of poles and chattering of skis was reminiscent of the tinkling of an old-time piano.
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I can close my eyes and hear them tinkling yet, sixty years after, and feel the pine-needles under my knees, and smell the wood smoke mingling with the musky perfume of her hair and the scent of the wild flowers outside her bower ... the soft lips teasing my ear, murmuring "Make my bells ring again, pinda-lickoyee* (* Literally," white-eye "; a white man ....)
Isabelle
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David pushed himself up on his left forearm, showering tinkling ice cubes around him as the towel fell off his face.
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Beggars sat here and there, calling out or tinkling a little bell to catch the compassion of the innocent.
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On the other side there was a lull in the conversation, but the breathing of several men, the occasional light tinkling of some ornaments, the clink of metal scabbards, or of brass siri-vessels passed from hand to hand, was audible during the short pause.
Almayer's Folly
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Is that the tinkling of wedding bells we can hear?
The Sun
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The tinkling of the platinum against the marble flagstones woke her from her daze and she scrambled to her feet and hurried after him.
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Most effective is the contrast created when Slean's piano-tinkling waltz-time verses bloom into symphonic swells of strings and timpani on the pop-smart choruses.
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When music is tinkling away in the background it makes it impossible to hear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because of the years of subjecting my eardrums to the sounds of high energy dance music, I thought he said "tinkling".
Unclebob Diary Entry
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Tinkling Muzak proved the Age of the Foxtrot was not entirely dead.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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A short jolt, no more; but enough to set the antiquated chandelier that hung in the turret gently swaying and tinkling again.
COLDHEART CANYON
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When music is tinkling away in the background it makes it impossible to hear.
Times, Sunday Times
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And for a very few minutes I listen to the whisper of tiny tinkling snow crystals falling now in ever denser sheets.
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The day begins with dazzling light which is described as "tinkling bright silk thread" and "blazing needlework", where "one line springs from another, like vein branching from vein on a birch leaf, or the back of one's hand, or a precious stone".
From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón - review
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They led him to the back, up a vermicular staircase, past a tinkling fountain, to the girl's room.
The Shell Collector : Stories
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Throughout the song, we hear tinkling piano, barely-tapped chimes and sporadic maracas.
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The meditative bits have been airbrushed out and replaced by weird little fantasy scenes with tinkling songs and piano music.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind him came a low laugh, then a few bars of tinkling music that cut off with a tinny snap.
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She laughed a tinkling little laugh, and I wondered if she even knew about Becca.
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Bowel sounds vary greatly in pitch and quality, being low-pitched or high-pitched gurgles or rumbles. ‘Tinkling’ bowel sounds represent bowel obstruction.
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His tinkling take on Karma Police, for instance, calls to mind Mozart's piano concertos, while Everything in Its Right Place, with its bottom-end minor notes, is dourly reminiscent of Shostakovich - and all free of Yorke's watery squall.
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I found the restaurants and bars serving coffee and liquor with gusto and the cacophony raised by the tinkling of pegs and cups often made it impossible for us to hear azan from the mosque.
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I could bear cowbells tinkling from the basalt villages of the Velay, 3000 feet above sea level.
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She laughed, a silvery tinkling sound clearer than any bell.
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I wonder if he laughed the tinkling silvery laugh which was one of the things that had got [him] so disliked by the better element.
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My visit had coincided with the outrigger canoe-racing world championships and my ears were filled with the sound of manic, tinkling ukuleles.
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The tinkling of the water and the rushing of the rapids were the only sounds heard.
There's a lot to see and do in Veracruz, Mexico
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When music is tinkling away in the background it makes it impossible to hear.
Times, Sunday Times
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A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my wood pile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly _day day day_, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery _phe-be_ from the wood-side.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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And that piano does keep tinkling in the background.
Times, Sunday Times
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The remastered stereo soundtrack is also a treasure - every sonic element, from the roar of a typhoon wind to the gentle tinkling of wind chimes, is pristinely preserved.
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The melodies lay prettily embedded in tinkling bells and other atmospheric effects, but there was little worth remembering beyond the composer's good intentions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Olivia Williams' crisp, tinkling syllables have a very Kristin Scott Thomas-ish ennui, and she is often shown lying perfectly still in satin sheets like a vaguely preposterous alabaster saint.
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In the stern the motor chugged on easily; at the bows I heard the tinkling ripple from the cutwater.
Movie Night
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Heathrow's answer to this is a player piano tinkling merrily nearby.
Times, Sunday Times
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The meditative bits have been airbrushed out and replaced by weird little fantasy scenes with tinkling songs and piano music.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the sound of glass, tinkling in such a mass it sounded like waves crashing on a beach.
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Yes, and back of the house he would have a small garden, a place of meditation and repose, with goldfish in a tiny lakelet, and wind bells tinkling in the several trees, and there would be a high wall all around so that his meditation and repose should be undisturbed.
THE CHINAGO
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Tinkling Muzak proved the Age of the Foxtrot was not entirely dead.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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There's too much sweetness overall, and a couple of unnecessary instrumentals rife with resonant pianos and tinkling glockenspiels.
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Heathrow's answer to this is a player piano tinkling merrily nearby.
Times, Sunday Times
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They sat there, their laughter tinkling with self-regard, sublimely confident that everyone was looking at them and wanted to be them.
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I drive down the middle of a meandering road through snug villages and fresh meadows to the sound of tinkling cowbells.
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The hall fell suddenly and completely silent, except for the sound of the glass tinkling slightly and the wine dripping down the wall.
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In the complete silence of the room, tiny tinkling sounds could be heard at the window.
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When he was gone, for Cornelia the sun shone brighter, and the tinkling of the water in the fountain in the peristylium sounded sweeter than before.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
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It's light and tinkling, like a brook to match her eyes.
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Later there appear to be glass jars tinkling, the soft plashing of paint molecules expelled by industrial sprayguns - perhaps the machine is being coated with a durable finish.
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The drums are applied for atmosphere, creating a background packed with tinkling cymbals and drum fills.
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He could hear the sounding of matin invitatories; chimes telling a rosary of harmony over tortuous labyrinths of narrow streets, over cornet towers, over pepper-box pignons, over dentelated walls; the chimes chanting the canonical hours, prime and tierce, sexte and none, vespers and compline; celebrating the joy of a city with the tinkling laughter of the little bells, tolling its sorrow with the ponderous lamentation of the great ones.
Là-bas
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All very fancy, with a pianist tinkling away in the background.
The Sun
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Somewhere a bird cried, and up on the hill the tinkling sound of a cowbell rang.
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The reason I wanted to see this beach is because the book said that if, conditions were right, the sound of the waves hitting this unique shoreline of flat, shingle-like “pink rhyolite and felsite bedrock” makes a tinkling, bell-like sound.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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Later, the bishop led me across his red shag carpet to a white fountain tinkling in the corner of his office.
God’s Country
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All very fancy, with a pianist tinkling away in the background.
The Sun
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The men watched as she strode toward the church, swiped a bicycle leaning upon the building's side, and disappeared down Main Street, tinkling the bell for all to hear.
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The skeleton rehearsal orchestra started up: a double-sided drum, a gamelan which is a sort of oriental xylophone and a big wooden wheel festooned with tinkling bells.
Dance of the Gods: Interview with Cambodia's Princess Buppha Devi | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
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The sweet, tinkling sound of a music box can stir recollections of everything from childhood to first love.
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He cleared his throat at the mike and paused as the room settled down to a dull roar of voices and the tinkling of glass and silverware.
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a small kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies 'education, Dorothea went up to her room to answer
Middlemarch
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Look out for the dapper gent in a bowler hat tinkling the ivories in an East End boozer.
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I heard laughter like tiny tinkling bells beside me and I looked up.
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Her gold eyes glinted even in the dark, the black collar around her neck swinging an old nametag and a small tinkling bell.
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Her hands were trembling slightly, the crystal pitcher tinkling against the pewter mug.
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When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and parterres, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, tinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the whole hill of the Alhambra.
The Alhambra
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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.
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Across the street, he heard sweet tinkling laughter.
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There was the sound of a whining, tinkling hootchy-kootchy show.
Tender is the Night
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There was a charming mixture of all that is needed to make a garden perfect -- grass, velvety lawn rather; water, for a little brook ran tinkling in and out, playing bopeep among the bushes; trees, of course, and flowers, of course, flowers of every shade and shape.
The Cuckoo Clock
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The melodies lay prettily embedded in tinkling bells and other atmospheric effects, but there was little worth remembering beyond the composer's good intentions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her ears were assaulted with the sounds of chattering guests and tinkling glasses, practically drowning out the background music.
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When the faint tinkling of forks on china started to subside, I polished off the last few golden drops and headed back into the gathering.
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I could hear the sound of ice being scooped and dropped into tumblers, the sound of adults walking past with the liquid and frozen water making "tinkling" noises around me.
Adoro te Devote
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‘Yes ma'am,’ the sprite mocked before flittering and tinkling out of the door and joining the numerous other sprites who had finished waking their masters.
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The melodies lay prettily embedded in tinkling bells and other atmospheric effects, but there was little worth remembering beyond the composer's good intentions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is that the tinkling of wedding bells we can hear?
The Sun
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It is all tinkling guitars, simple percussion and lovely crystal clear vocals, delivered in a faintly Icelandic accent.
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And that piano does keep tinkling in the background.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was distracted by their beautiful costumes: soft animal skin boots, striking headpieces with eagle and parrot feathers, elaborate silver concho belts, turquoise squash blossom jewellery, and tinkling ankle bells.
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When music is tinkling away in the background it makes it impossible to hear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Up on the East Gate, under tinkling bells and rotund lanterns, men had come to sip tea, puff cigarettes and play draughts.
