I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A herd of goats crossed the beach, the bells around their necks jingling cheerfully.
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Noah was jingling his keys in his pocket.
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The coins in his pocket jingled together noisily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dimes came baked into cakes, jammed into cans, glued to pictures of the president, and jingling loose in envelopes.
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I turned the key back quietly, extracting it with shaking hands, careful not to let the keys jingle together noisily.
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It squeaked and jingled on its hinges as they swung it behind them.
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Once he thought he heard metal jingling further down the room he lived and ate and slept in.
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Sethe jingled the earrings for the pleasure of the crawling-already? girl, who reached for them over and over again.
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The chain on his amulets begins to jingle .
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The crowd jingled with all their wealth.
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The tips in her sagging pockets jingled and banged against her leg.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Just then there was the jingle of keys outside the door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A jingle for every occasion: birthdays, menstruation, first love.
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A little jingle in his head: East is east and lost is lost...
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Beyond the walls I heard the stamp and jingle of the King's escort, but he came in alone.
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He writes jingles and obscure Broadway tunes.
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Most of the phrases the students came up with were jingles and slang.
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Then he heard, faintly but distinctly, the jingle of a bridle.
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There are already plans to make the £26,000 jingle into a hit single and show the ad in cinemas.