Jingling is an English word with synonyms like jingly or reverberant. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Jingling meaning
- The sound made by something that jingles.
- An old parlour game in which blindfolded players within a ring attempted to catch another player to whom a bell was tied.
Synonyms of Jingling
Using Jingling
- The main meaning on this page is: The sound made by something that jingles. | An old parlour game in which blindfolded players within a ring attempted to catch another player to whom a bell was tied.
- Useful related words include: jingly, reverberant, ringing.
- In the example corpus, jingling often appears in combinations such as: jingling bells, jingling in.
Context around Jingling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jingling
- In this selection, "jingling" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 18.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, faint, euros, clear, bells, sound and jester stand out and add context to how "jingling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a clear jingling sound when and beads and jingling bells don. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jingling" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jingling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I had Euros jingling in my pocket. (7 words)
The festive mood was infectious, but that faint jingling was sobering. (11 words)
We can just picture him in a jingling jester’s hat. (11 words)
Almost US$75 worth actually… and because of many bank’s rules, there is no way to exchange coins… Bills yes, of course, but not the round pieces of metal jingling around in my pockets. (35 words)
While in Raas, the dancers use sticks at the end of which tiny bells (ghungrus) are tied so that they give off a clear jingling sound when they strike one another. (31 words)
Footage also showed that if the donkeys, who are decorated with bright colored beads and jingling bells, don't move they are whipped. (23 words)
Example sentences (8)
Footage also showed that if the donkeys, who are decorated with bright colored beads and jingling bells, don't move they are whipped.
The festive mood was infectious, but that faint jingling was sobering.
I had Euros jingling in my pocket.
While in Raas, the dancers use sticks at the end of which tiny bells (ghungrus) are tied so that they give off a clear jingling sound when they strike one another.
Almost US$75 worth actually… and because of many bank’s rules, there is no way to exchange coins… Bills yes, of course, but not the round pieces of metal jingling around in my pockets.
We can just picture him in a jingling jester’s hat.
A more commonly known example of chance-based music is the sound of wind chimes jingling in a breeze.
To her ankles, she wraps one or more leather straps of jingling bells.
Common combinations with jingling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- jingling bells 2×
- jingling in 2×