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jangling

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verb

present participle of jangle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for jangling
Adjective
  • The actress donned a slinky metallic shift dress in her latest Instagram post in partnership with the skincare brand Shiseido.
    Emma Banks, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Red flags included bitterness or any metallic notes the beans may have picked up during processing.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The live action How the Grinch Stole Christmas led the way, jingling all the way to 669M minutes viewed.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The next signs of the nation’s political divide might be jingling in your pocket next year.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • What's more, this door alarm features three sensitivity levels and emits a loud, shrill sound that will instantly scare an intruder away.
    Stephanie Gray, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
  • When Nosferatu showed his corpselike face, the Wonder Morton’s Vox Humana (human voice) and concert-flute pipes buzzed together in a shrill cluster.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Benito finds community with the like-minded Pleneros de la Cresta, who have been playing the island’s pattering folk music for over a decade.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Greene was among a small but strident group of Republicans in Congress who refused to move on.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • For two years leading up to the fatal shooting, as police archive video shows, Lorincz constantly called 911 to make false allegations about her Black neighbors, reserving many of her most strident complaints for children who played near her house (on property they were entitled to enjoy).
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Eerie chants, tinkling percussion, zany strings, and plucky swelling piano.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The San Francisco 49ers looked right at home in that environment, beating the Eagles 23-19 at a raucous Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Sunday.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Beyond New York, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization led raucous protests near the site of the killing soon after news spread of the shooting.
    Asra Q. Nomani , Nikolas Lanum , Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The motives driving a revolution might be ideological, clashing ethnic or tribal identities, competition for wealth, or a combination of all these.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Telling the story of the clashing egos and raging idiocy of the fictional Spinal Tap, Reiner both directed and starred as the filmmaker-within-the-film Marty DiBergi.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025
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“Jangling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jangling. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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