Tinkling is an English word with synonyms like reverberant or ringing. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tinkling meaning
- A tinkle; a tinkling sound.
- The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
- The action of the verb to tinkle
Synonyms of Tinkling
Using Tinkling
- The main meaning on this page is: A tinkle; a tinkling sound. | The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger. | The action of the verb to tinkle
- Useful related words include: tinkly, reverberant, ringing.
- In the example corpus, tinkling often appears in combinations such as: tinkling of, tinkling in.
Context around Tinkling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tinkling
- In this selection, "tinkling" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, subtle, ice, coward, cymbal, away and sound stand out and add context to how "tinkling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a piano tinkling like water and and ice tinkling in a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tinkling" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tinkling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Soulful tinkling of the pianos before the drums and bass kick in? (12 words)
They make a very sweet tinkling sound and they’re attached to key-chains. (14 words)
The tinkling notes throughout “Step” made much more sense when visually connected to their origin, a harpsichord. (17 words)
Recalling one party thrown by the female impersonator Danny La Rue, he later described 'Noel Coward, tinkling away on the ivories for all he was worth' and James Bond star Roger Moore drawing 'the girls like horseflies to a cow-pat'. (41 words)
As St. Paul informs us, “If I should speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1). (36 words)
Rhoda meets Mary Richards, played by the show’s namesake, when Mary moves into the turreted Victorian house where Rhoda has fashioned a home in the attic, fringe beads tinkling in the doorway. (33 words)
Soulful tinkling of the pianos before the drums and bass kick in? (12 words)
Example sentences (9)
Accompanying many a New Year’s Eve toast to the end of another seemingly endless year will be the subtle tinkling of the ice in the glass.
As St. Paul informs us, “If I should speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1).
July is a picnic and a red canoe and a sunburned neck and a softball game and ice tinkling in a tall glass.
Recalling one party thrown by the female impersonator Danny La Rue, he later described 'Noel Coward, tinkling away on the ivories for all he was worth' and James Bond star Roger Moore drawing 'the girls like horseflies to a cow-pat'.
Soulful tinkling of the pianos before the drums and bass kick in?
As she pulled the covers back and carefully manoeuvred her feet to the floor, she heard it again: the very highest notes of a piano, tinkling like water.
They make a very sweet tinkling sound and they’re attached to key-chains.
Rhoda meets Mary Richards, played by the show’s namesake, when Mary moves into the turreted Victorian house where Rhoda has fashioned a home in the attic, fringe beads tinkling in the doorway.
The tinkling notes throughout “Step” made much more sense when visually connected to their origin, a harpsichord.
Common combinations with tinkling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tinkling of 2×
- tinkling in 2×