How to Use jangle in a Sentence

jangle

1 of 2 verb
Definition of janglenext
Synonyms for janglenext
  • Coins jangled out of the machine.
  • He jangled his keys loudly outside the door.
  • By the end of the day, the kid’s pockets jangled with nickles.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The spurs are a jingle-jangling a little bit deep in the heart of Texas.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The chains on his wrists jangled as his hands traveled the keyboard.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 27 July 2019
  • The jangling guitar comes in and out with the detached drone of a telephone's busy signal.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Phoenix’s rancid torment jangles the nerves and turns the stomach.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019
  • When the pistachios were gone, Wayne then jangled his car keys to lure in the little fellow.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
  • By the time the roshi rang the bell, my mind was jangling with emotion, while my legs had fallen completely asleep.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The five-toned chimes would bang out quick arpeggios or jangle together in messy chords.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • When the second follows, the chains on the metal lamps in her living room begin jangling.
    — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 23 June 2019
  • Of course, no goal is complete without a nerve-jangling wait for VAR to confirm that no one was 0.1mm offside in the buildup...
    — SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Nerves were jangling even more when Gabriel Jesus found the net after two minutes to give City a glimmer of hope.
    — Henry Young & Becky Anderson, CNN, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Lose any one of those three races and Republican nerves will be jangling.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 May 2017
  • All these competing elements pleasantly jangle the brain and set the mood for the evening ahead.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Approaching the drop zone, the bomb bay bell jangled loudly, the payload door retracted, and the plane gave a gentle lurch.
    — oregonlive, 24 May 2020
  • After weeks in the woods, pushing a shopping cart around a supermarket was bizarre—the muzak and bright lights jangling my brain.
    — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • With the ninth of 10 final round qualifiers now here, don’t be surprised to see some nerves jangling if the U.S. is unable to score early.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Think of all your beautiful extra years and toss them into the water like jangling bracelets.
    — Emily Carter Roiphe, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The highly charged score and nerve-jangling sound design by Jon Nicholls also help amplify the sense of looming tragedy.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Nerves have been jangled by a record loss in the most recent quarter at the Government Pension Investment Fund, the world’s largest.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Audiences at the end of Romero's film came out all mixed up, nerves jangling, jittery, shaken up in a different way.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2017
  • After more than 20 years of jangling students’ nerves, the high-stakes test for admission to some of New York City’s most elite public high schools is getting a makeover.
    — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2017
  • Nerves seemed to jangle several top competitors, and clean landings were hard to find.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 25 July 2021
  • The days of hitting three cherries as machines jingle and jangle while spitting out a mountain of quarters are long gone.
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • This time the eruption rattled the couple’s big landscape windows, the result of the frequent banging as vents thrust out steam and gas that serves as a nerve-jangling score to life here now.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 19 May 2018
  • This time the eruption rattled the couple's big landscape windows, the result of the frequent banging as vents thrust out steam and gas that serves as a nerve-jangling score to life here now.
    — Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2018
  • Your nerves are jangling, palms are sweating and nothing in the world can distract you from watching the action as the referee starts lifting the whistle to his lips.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The 35-minute tour began with a visit to a science lab and a few classrooms, then Bishop led them through the Burke’s newer wing and downstairs to the cafeteria, keys jangling at his side.
    — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • Pinging texts and news alerts relentlessly jangled my nerves.
    — Janet Hook, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
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jangle

2 of 2 noun
  • The designers put a jangle in the models’ walk with buckled leather straps in neat rows up the sleeves of sweaters, down the legs of trousers and leggings, and across boots.
    — Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 18 June 2017
  • But then there was the slight jangle of a sleigh bell, and a reindeer stood up from behind the tree and stepped – cautiously – toward them.
    — Greg Borowski, jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Down a flight of stairs, away from the cars, the riverwalk was designed as a refuge from the hubbub, a civilizing force in the urban push and jangle.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • Without Keuning's jangle and riff shards, The Killers have a more poppy sound.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Without Keuning’s jangle and riff shards, The Killers have a more poppy sound.
    — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The singer-guitarist also channels some of the anthemic jangle of Tom Petty and the working-class themes of Bruce Springsteen.
    — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Not exactly the kind of Best Picture entry that makes the jewels jangle for joy in the audience of the Academy Awards.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The return of the character was teased in the first season of the Star Wars drama series, when a pair of black boots with a familiar-sounding jangle entered the frame at the end of one episode.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 8 May 2020
  • Trumpets blare at the voice-cracking top of their register over a cool upright bass line and the incongruous junkyard jangle of toy piano.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Unsurprisingly, Reggie is the one who supplied his friends with the jingle jangle.
    — refinery29.com, 3 May 2018
  • There is a certain West Coast folk-rock jangle to the song, although the vocals are a bit more agitated than America, which definitely suits the lyrics.
    — Ed Masley, azcentral, 12 June 2018
  • Competing salsa tracks spill out of shops and restaurants; car horns sound off in frustration in standstill traffic; and metal spatulas jangle on the grills of street-side taco stalls.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Accessories such as a statement necklace, a jangle of (fake) bangles, dangly earrings and a colorful, gauzy scarf will add zip to a basic look.
    — Amy Tara Koch, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • The Birmingham native’s band Waxahatchee did a strong set of Instagram jangle at Orion.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 16 May 2022
  • For all the jangle and sugar sweet elements of the band’s undeniably catchy music, there was a caustic quality to Heavenly.
    — Robert Ham, SPIN, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Its improbable-seeming transitions — from post-punk jangle to boy-band crooning to hip-hop drum loops — are the source of the track’s infectious vitality.
    — Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But the very best part of American Girl is the third verse that never appears, leaving the listener out on the balcony as its rambunctious guitar jangles fade to silence, cheating us out of our heroine's happy ending.
    — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
  • For everyone else, filling up a blank space meant going with something attractively innocuous that didn't jangle with the sofa color.
    — Kim Cook, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Also crucial is Murphy's particular knack for using music and color to convey the hothouse longings of her characters; heady metaphors served in the atonal jangle of post punk or the throbbing kaleidoscope of strobe lights at a house party.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 June 2020
  • More recently, her 2017 release Pussycat was an album-length rebuke to our current president, with sharp lyrics and a welcoming musical jangle.
    — Robert Ham, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Today, with the widest media and social-media reach in history, every new workplace shooting jangles the nation’s population from coast to coast — and churns up new calls for better security each time, experts note.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
  • By using the properties of music, the sounds Douek and Beckerman envision in Alarm Fatigue could convey more information to caregivers, and in a form that would be easier to grasp—plus more pleasant—than a jangle of unrelated beeps.
    — Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian, 3 May 2018
  • The 11 beautifully simple and accomplished jangle-rock songs on the LP sound classic, now, moody, melodic, hypnotic, focused, wintry, summery, personal and universal.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], AL.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The jangle of references is a bit disconcerting — what are Sleeping Beauty’s companions doing on an antebellum plantation in northern New Jersey?
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 June 2021
  • The designers put a jangle in the models’ walk with buckled leather straps in neat rows up the sleeves of sweaters, down the legs of trousers and leggings, and across boots.
    — Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 18 June 2017
  • But then there was the slight jangle of a sleigh bell, and a reindeer stood up from behind the tree and stepped – cautiously – toward them.
    — Greg Borowski, jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Down a flight of stairs, away from the cars, the riverwalk was designed as a refuge from the hubbub, a civilizing force in the urban push and jangle.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • Without Keuning's jangle and riff shards, The Killers have a more poppy sound.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Without Keuning’s jangle and riff shards, The Killers have a more poppy sound.
    — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The singer-guitarist also channels some of the anthemic jangle of Tom Petty and the working-class themes of Bruce Springsteen.
    — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2019

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