as in jingled
to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound
coins clinking in his pocket as he traipsed down the street
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Recent Examples of clinked
Our buckteeth clinked painfully.
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Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Glasses clinked; and at the center of it all was her very first ESSENCE cover, in October 2017.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Glasses clinked and conversations resumed over martinis and wine, following a cocktail hour in the penthouse upstairs.
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clinked
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Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL.—
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They were dressed like elves in little green outfits with bells on their hats that jingled and drove our dog, Cujo, nuts.—
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Minutes after the fight ended, a lone 911 caller rang authorities to report the brawl.—
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According to the arrest report, detectives then found surveillance video showing the outside of the victim’s home moments before the two kidnappers rang the doorbell.—
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London As Big Ben chimed midnight, London celebrated 2026 with fireworks over the River Thames.—
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Luxemburgo’s view chimed with that of another former Selecao manager, Emerson Leao.—
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The only recourse those unregulated bookmakers had when their Spidey-senses tingled was to simply stop taking bets on the suspicious game.—
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Yoon’s decree and ensuing power vacuum plunged South Korea into political turmoil, halted the country’s high-level diplomacy and rattled its financial markets.—
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Today his company Paramount Skydance is suing WBD and its CEO, David Zaslav, after the company’s board rejected Paramount’s latest bid in favor of Netflix’s — the latest chapter in a saga that’s rattled the industry.—
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“Clinked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clinked. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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