How to Use jangle in a Sentence

jangle

1 of 2 verb
  • Coins jangled out of the machine.
  • He jangled his keys loudly outside the door.
  • The chains on his wrists jangled as his hands traveled the keyboard.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 27 July 2019
  • 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 five-toned chimes would bang out quick arpeggios or jangle together in messy chords.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Phoenix’s rancid torment jangles the nerves and turns the stomach.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Lose any one of those three races and Republican nerves will be jangling.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 May 2017
  • When their opponents began to gain a foothold, the nerves began to jangle.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • If the rapidly worsening events of the third act don’t jangle your nerves, the sound design will.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • When the second follows, the chains on the metal lamps in her living room begin jangling.
    — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 23 June 2019
  • Think of all your beautiful extra years and toss them into the water like jangling bracelets.
    — Emily Carter Roiphe, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2018
  • When the pistachios were gone, Wayne then jangled his car keys to lure in the little fellow.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
  • Nerves seemed to jangle several top competitors, and clean landings were hard to find.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 25 July 2021
  • Pinging texts and news alerts relentlessly jangled my nerves.
    — Janet Hook, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
  • Carnival music jangled as the wide-eyed wooden horsies screeched round and round.
    — Wired, 19 Nov. 2019
  • All these competing elements pleasantly jangle the brain and set the mood for the evening ahead.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Guitar jangles mix with emotional builds to breath new life into a song that's all about pushing forward.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2017
  • The vision is to make jingle jangle a part of our holidays forever.
    — Essence, 13 Dec. 2022
  • In his backpack Said has a dozen jangling glass bottles with different color oils.
    — Justin Fornal, National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2016
  • 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
  • It's relaxed enough for a comfortable fit, but straight enough to keep all your pocketable essentials from jangling around.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • South Koreans are relieved that their careers no longer hinge on jangling a tambourine for their tone-deaf bosses.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Finally, the designer herself appeared, her head shrouded in dreads and jangling bells and beads.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 13 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the Milan Cortina Games have a way of jangling nerves and chewing up champions.
    — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2026

jangle

2 of 2 noun
  • The work is a mix of traditional tracks and some new jingle jangle jams.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
  • These are recipes where modernity jangles with the delicious rhythms of the past.
    — Scott Hocker, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Better, perhaps, to have the power to choose who can see you—a jangle of chains, a nod, a hanky, a flick of the wrist.
    — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • The key organizer mutes the noise of key jangles and can keep keys in a tidy stack in a user’s preferred order.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Moira ran down swiftly and lightly, with a jangle of her heels on the iron, to the bottom, which was still about six feet off the ground, in an open yard at the side of the pub.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • 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
  • With its electronic beats and pulses, John Hauser’s sound designs nudge the play’s jangle of nerves.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Without Keuning’s jangle and riff shards, The Killers have a more poppy sound.
    — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Without Keuning's jangle and riff shards, The Killers have a more poppy sound.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • What this says about America is screamed at a much higher decibel than the jangle of slow-melting ice cubes in the tumblers themselves.
    — Scott Hocker, theweek, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Unsurprisingly, Reggie is the one who supplied his friends with the jingle jangle.
    — refinery29.com, 3 May 2018
  • 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
  • In the face of this workaday jangle of strangeness and complexity, paranoia starts to seem like a perfectly rational response.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • 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 Lemonheads are an apt comparison—there’s a lot of that grungy 90’s jangle in the Tossing Seed sound.
    — Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024
  • Amid dramatic jangle, Wesolowski gives Sharpe’s lyrics of unrequited love.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Take that time during lockdown when the bike chain on my RadRover Step-Thru 1 started making a weird jingle-jangle sound.
    — David Hochman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Collins delivers that revelation, and others, with a particularly unsettling jangle of the many bracelets on her wrist.
    — Vulture, 8 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Linda endures a cosmic round of stress, matched by the movie’s hectic jangle of moods and its use of closeups of the overburdened protagonist, whose confines grow smaller as her troubles grow bigger and her fury mounts—a recipe for explosion.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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