[
US
/ˈdʒæŋɡəɫ/
]
[ UK /dʒˈæŋɡəl/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈæŋɡəl/ ]
VERB
-
make a sound typical of metallic objects
The keys were jingling in his pocket
NOUN
-
a metallic sound
the jingle of coins
the jangle of spurs
How To Use jangle In A Sentence
- Army, 'the professors said one to another, as, hardly stopping for a moment at the stranger's entrance, they continued to' jangle 'among themselves. A Book of Quaker Saints
- The waitress looked up when the bells jangled, signaling a customer.
- The wind-chimes jangled gently in the tree above us.
- When it moved, it shook his vital organs as if he was standing on an earthquake simulator in a geology museum, and when it spoke, his nerves jumped and jangled in his body.
- Guards' keys jangled as you passed the idle silence and time of your life rotting away.
- Logan staggered up, jangled by the blast, and grabbed his hammer in numb fingers. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
- It was soon interrupted by the harsh jangle of the telephone, which I let ring until Quinn shouted for me to pick it up.
- Africa, and the people in the market-place a lively and chromatic jangle; but the shadow of what we call inhumanity (when we are trying to persuade ourselves that humanity is something very different) chills and darkens the heart. Old Junk
- The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries. Half a Dozen Girls
- The doctor changed thousands of lives forever with that procedure and psychosurgical techniques like it; he calmed some patients 'wildly jangled existences and condemned others to imprisonment in their immobilized bodies and minds. Stuff. And things.