How to Use jingle in a Sentence

jingle

1 of 2 verb
  • Bells jingled in the distance.
  • She jingled the coins in her pocket.
  • The bell above the door — the one that jingles when a customer walks in — had been silent for an hour.
    Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Goodnight Moon provides a tiny mouse that jingles along with a big moon that lights up.
    Houston Chronicle, 24 June 2018
  • May your medals jingle all the way through Fiesta 2022 and beyond.
    René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The bell jingled, and one of the quartier’s restaurant people appeared, a waiter.
    Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The flowers look like sleigh bells on a handle, and those flowers, when jingled, spew yellow pollen grains into the air.
    Lucas Joel, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2019
  • One Hallmark Christmas movie lover will jingle all the way to the bank this holiday season.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • On a rod attached to the harnesses of the lead horses often hung a series of small bells that jingled as the wagons moved along.
    Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Tree jingled her way to the next round, leaving Butterfly and Thingamajig to battle it out in the showdown round.
    Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Coach Z. was already out there, jingling change in his pocket, looking up at Cassiopeia.
    Will MacKin, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • What: Have a jingling good time and do some good, as 100 percent of registration fees goes to the Arthritis Foundation.
    Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • But both outperform bells by over 30 percent and avoid your house sounding like Santa's jingling down the chimney year round.
    Amanda Castleman, Good Housekeeping, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Irked by a festive neighborhood display, one cranky neighbor is jingling all the way to court over Christmas music.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2016
  • All your seasonal favorites played with one of a kind special effects and jingling bells of the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ.
    Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • And on Tuesday’s episode, audiences saw the remaining six competitors perform during the same episode for the first time this season before the Tree jingled all the way home.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Choreography and dress design have evolved over the years, but the jingling sound remains, Google's explanation notes.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 15 June 2019
  • Join us for all your seasonal favorites as the one of a kind special effects and jingling bells of the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ sets off the holiday spirit.
    Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft once threatened to move the team if public money didn’t come jingling for a new stadium.
    Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 Aug. 2017
  • To a soundtrack of jingling bells and sprightly piano tinkling, Mrs. Trump glides silently through the White House summoning our attention with her gestures.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Most mountain resorts already score highly in the winter wonderland stakes, but some have that extra magic to jingle your yuletide bells.
    Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The family doesn’t want to leave with a plastic bag full of grandpa’s things, or an empty pet carrier, a collar that seems somehow smaller and dirtier now, tags jingling.
    S.e. Smith, Longreads, 2 Nov. 2017
  • What to Consider: The large metal zippers tend to jingle constantly, which can become annoying.
    Rebecca Carhart, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2022
  • On those nights, students can learn a variety of native social dances, some incorporating shawls, hoops, and jingling bells, as well as drumming techniques.
    Isaac Hale, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2018
  • Some of these include stacks of bangles of their choosing— vendors often attend the henna sessions with boxes of glittery, jingling glass bracelets—and small, daintily beaded bags.
    Noor Brara, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Featuring a breakaway clasp and reflective tape for safety, the bell is also designed to only jingle when your cat is especially active.
    Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 11 July 2022
  • Bracelets can jingle, diamonds and sparkles can reflect light in peculiar ways and necklaces can interfere with lavalier microphones.
    Jane Hanson, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Leathery-skinned women wearing jingling bangles, men in white turbans and a rickshaw driver in a dress shirt took turns feeding the injured animals handfuls of roasted chickpeas and offering prayers.
    Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • After more than three decades jingling in pockets and purses, the coin has been replaced with a snazzier 12-sided model introduced in March that has features aimed at defeating counterfeiters.
    Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • If adventure really jingles your bells, plan an adrenaline-boosting trip.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2019
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jingle

2 of 2 noun
  • I heard the jingle of bells.
  • The jingle of an ice cream cart played in the backdrop.
    Simon Romero, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Che, before putting on the cat jingle and the ABC song.
    Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2021
  • Adults in green tracksuits have the length of the jingle to move forward and stop before the doll turns.
    Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
  • In the 1990s, Dr. John lent his funky vocal and piano licks to a Popeyes jingle.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The guy who wrote that jingle, Bob Pritikin, was a genius.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2021
  • That jingle is something that, once heard, does not leave your brain.
    Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Things indeed seem to go better with Coke, as the old ad jingle went.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • Guests can call him with a jingle of a little silver bell.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • In the audio, there’s the sound of the river, the jingle of Banana’s collar, birdsong and the hum of traffic in the distance.
    New York Times, 3 May 2021
  • Seared to order, the result is a marvel of gooey crunch, and a sly wink at a 50-year-old Big Mac jingle.
    Michael Russell, oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The intro swirl system jingle would have been cool, too.
    Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The good news is the shortage means some extra jingle for the Kris Kringle cosplayers.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Didn’t America come up with the best of all jingles—the one about the pursuit of happiness?
    Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • First came the fevered pitch of the warm-up speeches and the catchy campaign jingle, in English and Spanish, which rang through the air at the park just south of City Hall.
    New York Times, 24 May 2021
  • But, of course, Biden is trying to offer the country a doctrine rather than a jingle.
    Josh Boak, Fortune, 3 July 2023
  • His law firm, Morgan & Morgan, is offering a big prize for the best new jingle to go with the brand.
    Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The two enjoy a cup of Joe when their parents come downstairs to see their son while the Folgers jingle plays.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Orefice Roth brings the jingle, the jangle, and some tasty lap steel to their indie Americana tunes.
    cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Abels wrote a lot of the film’s source music, from the faux-western score tracks that play in the Jupiter’s Claim theme park to a fast food jingle that didn’t make the final cut.
    Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Fragments of a song or jingles wind up playing on repeat in your head.
    WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • In the late ’70s, a cousin in France gave me a jingle and said, ‘There’s a gentleman here in France who started a new procedure.
    Steve Metsch, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
  • For her campaign, Flordelis recorded a jingle, which became a huge hit.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • Washburn Crosby tried one more thing to sell the cereal: a singing jingle.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2021
  • For a little extra jingle, pay to place a life-sized cutout of yourself or a friend in a stage-side audience seat.
    Bonnie McCarthy, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The modernization of the campaign includes a new jingle for the radio.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 May 2021
  • An amateur gumshoe, following the woozy clinking of the out-of-tune jingle, caught up with him near a park in Cobble Hill.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • This kit includes three boxes, five yards of red and white bakers twine, three parchment rounds, and nine jingle bells.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The couple were featured in TV commercials best-known for their catchy jingle.
    Star Tribune, 24 May 2021
  • If guests sitting front row at Vogue World heard a jingle from her neckful of medallions, that was on purpose.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2022

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