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  • adjective With a tinkling sound.

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  • adjective like the short high ringing sound of a small bell

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Examples

  • Once you adapted to the 'tinkly' sound, the music was very pleasant if a little simplistic but did have some complicated passages.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • "Walkabout" finds guest/ringer Noah "Panda Bear" Lennox of Animal Collective channeling the kind of tinkly Beach Boys music-box echo-chamber vibe he's nearly worn out recently.

    Baltimore City Paper 2009

  • But anyone who expected Srinivas to employ his mandolin to play tinkly Renaissance madrigals would have been confounded.

    Music review: Kennedy Center 'Maximum India' festival opener U. Srinivas 2011

  • The tinkly, delicate music seemed to be pouring out of the horn.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • A scar on my shin is from when I pedaled without holding the handlebars and I fell off my red Schwinn with the fat tires, the little straw basket, and the tinkly bell.

    Lea Lane: Scars of a Life Lea Lane 2010

  • Their tinkly laughter carries 20 floors above, and it makes me happy, too.

    Lea Lane: South Beach: Then and Now Lea Lane 2011

  • The tinkly, delicate music seemed to be pouring out of the horn.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • The tinkly, delicate music seemed to be pouring out of the horn.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • It's one of the greatest films, period. the tinkly ornament included means every time you shake your unwrapped present, an angel gets their wings!

    Michael Giltz: DVDs: New Christmas DVDs For Your Stocking Michael Giltz 2011

  • The tinkly, delicate music seemed to be pouring out of the horn.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

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