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Example sentences for "jangled"

Lexicographically close words:
jamming; jamque; jams; janders; jangle; jangling; janissaries; janissary; janitor; janitors
  1. There was no creak of footsteps upon the loose, bare boards--and the bell jangled faster than it would dangling from a cow's neck.

  2. Through the smoke he saw the bird careen and its bell jangled furiously; then the buzzard righted itself and was gone, fleeing so fast that the sound of its bell was hushed almost instantly.

  3. And he could see a bell too--an undersized cowbell--that dangled at the creature's breast and jangled incessantly.

  4. He sat at the piano and the keys jangled under his touch; he got up and walked again.

  5. At this inordinate flouting the patience of the new knight, growing more and more angry at each word, came quickly to the breaking point; for his nerves were jarred and jangled by the excitement of the day.

  6. The saddle creaked and the bit jangled and George's arm tightened round her.

  7. Rupert turned on his seat, and his elbow scraped the piano notes so that they jangled like a hundred questions.

  8. A bell jangled faintly somewhere in the wall.

  9. As he slipped the knot the throat of the bag sagged down, and a gold piece jangled on the floor.

  10. The poor lady shook from head to foot and the little bracelets on her trembling wrists jangled together.

  11. But she said nothing more--only gazed at the old man opposite her with staring eyes, and cried in a little desolate whimper and jangled her bracelets until at last Peter crept softly, miserably to bed.

  12. Its memory lingers ever, and even in her after madness, when the words have no meaning, we hear them again "like sweet bells jangled out of tune.

  13. Not in vain did we have the dark motif jangled in our ears when the curtain last descended; it meant trouble in the coming act, as we soon perceive.

  14. The familiar ring jangled half a dozen times and then .

  15. The shower was wonderful, purging away the soot of the park, and I was wrapping my hair in a large beige towel when the phone jangled again.

  16. He was on the point of suggesting it when a bell jangled solemnly in the hall.

  17. Reluctantly he followed her up the stairs as the bell jangled harshly, wildly.

  18. Whereupon, as if it had been playing sentinel out of the thicket near at hand, a blackbird suddenly jangled its challenge, and with warning cries fled away on its wings towards the house.

  19. I, and my bangles jangled as I raised my hand to my hair.

  20. She was a bent-up old lady and a rapid talker, with a voice which, though small, jangled every nerve in my body, like a pencil on a slate.

  21. He fetched out of his trousers pocket a great bunch of keys, and jangled them almost ferociously in the air at me for a full minute together with tears of amusement in his eyes.

  22. The strange, appealing, almost unearthly beauty of the movement soothed her jangled nerves; before she was aware of it, she was enrapt with the morbid majesty of the music.

  23. The rider saluted politely and indifferently, and jangled on.

  24. While I looked at her, Miss Sackett burst into a hard laugh which jangled hysterically.

  25. Just as Billy was about to leave the house the telephone bell jangled again.

  26. From the hall the telephone jangled sharply.

  27. He went up to them and shook them; and a loose shield jangled fiercely overhead.

  28. Then the bell jangled and ceased; and a crowd of other noises began; there were shouts, tramplings of hoofs in the court; shrill voices came over the wall; then a scream or two.

  29. For of all things, in my state of jangled nerves, to be afflicted with hives!

  30. His unceasing plaint and movement was anything but sedative to my jangled nerves.

  31. The kris jangled away and came to rest as Scurlock sprawled along the planking.

  32. A laugh from the companionway jangled on this scene of agony.

  33. The bell hanging over the passage door jangled shrilly.

  34. Before he could reach the foot of the stairs the long unused doorbell jangled noisily.

  35. It was a relief when the triangle jangled for dinner, and Wallie looked forward to the ride afterward, although it had its attendant irritations--chief of which was the propensity of J.

  36. He returned in the night and did not get up when the triangle jangled for breakfast.

  37. The "pony dot" flew higher and jangled and screeched with accumulating vindictiveness.

  38. Christmas, too, was bent on amusing himself, and he was so lusty and jocund, and the toy jangled and clattered so cheerfully that neither Tom nor myself could bestow much attention to the birds.

  39. The words jangled in his brain like the chimes of St. Clement's.

  40. He waited long for her to press the electric button which had taken the place of the ancient knob that jangled the bell at the far end of the hall.

  41. Far up the glen the bell jangled through the trees of the Duke's policies, and the road was busy with people bound for the sermon of Dr.

  42. The last rasp of a jay's scold jangled out from the trees.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jangled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.