tinkly in a sentence
Examples
- But a few minutes later, if you jiggle the silverware around, the sound is much more tinkly . ( And I notice this phenomenon " all the time ", when I'm soaking the glass and the silverware prior to washing them .)
- He had a reputation for attracting capacity houses in venues with names like Carlyle, Algonquin, Oak Room, Rainbow Room _ places with velvet interiors like the lining of a coffin, and music to match : soporific and tinkly like an airport bar sendoff to passengers bound for the afterlife.
- Lisa Germano's songs on " Excerpts From a Love Circus " ( 4AD / Warner Brothers ) seem to come from some drafty, echoey place, a sickroom or a haunted attic filled with quiet, tinkly instruments and, as one song puts it, " bruises, bruises, bruises, bruises ."
- From our first introduction to the title lass, in a tinkly " Flower Drum Song " number by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel called " Honor To Us All, " it is clear that Mulan _ voiced with spunk by Ming-Na Wen ( " One Night Stand " ) _ is not cut out for traditional subservience.
- Ruby turns to the family's lawyer, played by Bruce Dern, for help, but not even an actor as accomplished as Dern can do much to help a film in which " every hackneyed cinema trick from tinkly pianos to shock cuts and half-focused frames have been used to clue us into the malevolence " ( A . O . Scott ).