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Example sentences for "tinkled"

Lexicographically close words:
tinkered; tinkering; tinkers; tinking; tinkle; tinkler; tinklers; tinkles; tinkling; tinklings
  1. Off went our romantick adventurers: up they got on their horses: down tinkled a couple of new silver crowns on the cobbles.

  2. The stacked guineas sprawled in golden disarray and dwindled and swelled and tinkled to the tune of the game.

  3. A guinea slipped from Lovely's pocket and tinkled down to the foot of the stairs to reward the little scullery-maid who was even now yawning on her pallet upstairs.

  4. Then the mouth opened, and the hilt tinkled down on to the ground.

  5. I think that I must have transfixed him with that first mad lunge, for, though he struck and struck, his blows had no power in them, and presently his dagger tinkled down upon the floor.

  6. The plump hands of the seƱora went betrayingly into the air and her earrings tinkled with the horror that shook her cushiony person.

  7. The piano tinkled on, and then Emanuel's face was observed to change.

  8. And she picked up a little brass bell which stood on the central table and tinkled it.

  9. Inexhaustible, stimulated by the applause, he tinkled until late at night like a little bell, evoking kindly, cheerful laughter.

  10. The guitar tinkled the measure of the dance, and Makarov encouraged Yakov with popular sayings and shouts.

  11. And as we struggled up he hissed a fierce sea oath at me, when my clumsier boot dislodged an icicle that tinkled like breaking glass in the yard below us.

  12. And while we lay in the frozen cold of the pool, the water tinkled and gurgled and laughed, and went plout-plout at my knees, as though it was a hot summer day and we were stooping to drink.

  13. The shrubs all had fruit which tinkled when he touched them.

  14. Then he broke off those branches which tinkled as he touched them, and Kaboniyan allowed.

  15. The curtain tinkled as her head brushed it, but he neither saw nor heard.

  16. Bamboo and bead tinkled and slithered behind him.

  17. And then the little bell in his watch tinkled the hour of ten!

  18. The little bell in his watch tinkled the hour of eleven, when he heard Cardigan's door close for a last time across the hall.

  19. A fragment of her silver speech tinkled in his ear: "Oh, Wallie Banks!

  20. Our weapons tinkled and rasped, the true-points hissed and the pommels rang, and into the midst of this song of murderous game there trespassed the innocent love-lilt of a bird.

  21. We were on the edge of a glade of the wood, at the watershed of a small burn that tinkled among its ice along the ridge from Tombreck, dividing close beside us, half of it going to Shira Glen and half to Aora.

  22. The teaspoon chorus tinkled to its close When from his chair the MAN OF LAW arose, Called by her voice whose mandate all obeyed, And took the open volume she displayed.

  23. Liddy, too, is down stairs, promoted, but busy as in the days gone by; and the voice of that very bell tinkled but an hour ago.

  24. Now while the folding doors were closed, a new set of pictures was made; the bell tinkled again, and the game went on as before.

  25. I think I'm thankfulest of all," Ann said--and a little clock tinkled and sent her into rhyming.

  26. A quiver flickered the pop-corn strings, Fluttered the tinsel angel's wings, Tinkled the silver balls and things, Till all of the company heard.

  27. What sense of fear brooded here and whispered in the alder leaves and tinkled in the brook?

  28. Keeonekh would slide out upon the ice shelf, and hump his back, and begin to eat almost before the last bubble had tinkled behind him.

  29. A warm breeze sighed in the tree tops, the rill tinkled nearby, and a night bird called in the distance.

  30. A brass bell no larger than his thumbnail, a tarnished little trinket, no longer new, which tinkled merrily under his astonished gaze.

  31. As his arm touched the floor, Average Jones kicked unerringly at the wrist and the knife flew and tinkled in a far corner.

  32. The teaspoons tinkled all round the table.

  33. He rose from his chair, and tinkled his spoon against the side of his teacup.

  34. The teaspoons tinkled loudly all round the table, as he finished reading.

  35. I cut swiftly upward with supple hand, and his dangled bleeding at the wrist, and his sword fell; it tinkled on the ground.

  36. Soon the bell tinkled for vespers, and Gerard entered the church of the convent and from his place heard a service sung so exquisitely it seemed the choir of heaven.

  37. Another cinder tinkled in the grate, and a panel creaked in the wall.

  38. As I lay there, an ash tinkled slightly as it cooled, but there was hardly a gleam of the dullest red in the grate.

  39. The consul's entrance tinkled a small bell which brought a figure to the door.

  40. When at last the little bell tinkled which was the sign for candidates to move on to other tables, the taller man leaned over a list in front of him and marked down upon it the following hieroglyphic:-- "S.

  41. Insects hummed, a cow-bell tinkled now and then; breaths of cool air, those harbingers of the approaching eve, swept their cheeks as they passed occasional hollows.

  42. The bell of the family cow tinkled somewhere over near the water of the little stream.

  43. And some small trifle tinkled on the ice with a metallic sound.

  44. Mr. Ricardo jumped so that his eyeglass fell down and tinkled on its cord against the buttons of his waistcoat.

  45. The creek tinkled over the pebbles at their feet, and a drowsy bird, half-wakened by the moon, crooned languorously in the sycamores.

  46. Beautiful she was indeed in her garment of blue, over which streamed her yellow hair, bright as the gold rings that tinkled on her rounded arms.

  47. She was clothed in a blue robe, her long fair hair, whereof she had an abundance, was arranged in two plaits which hung almost to her knees, and about her neck and arms were massive gold rings that tinkled as she walked.


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