Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not mercy, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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Tinkling
Synonyms for "tinkling" (42 found)
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Translations
4 translations across 2 languages.
Esperanto
3 entries- tintanta adj (that tinkles)
- tintetanta adj (that tinkles)
- tintado noun (a tinkling sound)
French
1 entries- tintement noun (a tinkling sound)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
I have a bell on my bike. Its tinkling sound keeps the bears away.
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A jingle of tinkling bells mingled with the squeak of a viola; the guffaws of a rompish company blended with the tuneless chanting of discordant minstrels, and the gray parrot in its golden cage, suspended from one of the oaken beams of the ceiling, shook its feathers for the twentieth time and screamed vindictively at the roguish band.
Source: tatoeba (10971085)
The merry piano tinklings were gone.
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