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• v  make or emit a high sound
  tinkling bells
• s  like the short high ringing sound of a small bell
  sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal

• Near the little hamlet of Kamela, they had often heard a faraway tinkling, a ghostly bell ringing.
• There, to the tinkling of a large golden harp, the gaunt, grey Senator and the small, brown-haired nurse quietly took their vows.
• About 31 hours later, Loraine Percy was partially aroused by the sound of tinkling glass and brief, faint, clicking sounds.

• tinkle
• tink
• clink
• chink
• tinkly

News & Articles

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• South Lake Tahoe restaurateur judges State Fair wine competition
  By Evan Williams SACRAMENTO – The announcements, introductions and instructions have been dispensed with. You wait patiently at your table and the sound of faintly tinkling glassware grows louder as carts laden with wine glasses, each filled with 2 ounces and labeled with a numerical [...]
  June 16, 2013 - Lake Tahoe News
• Pigeon breeder delights in 'dying hobby'
  The backyard of Jim Feasel's rural log home is filled with tall shade trees, drooping wisteria, a tinkling waterfall and about a dozen bird feeders that attract local birds like Baltimore orioles, woodpeckers and wrens.
  June 11, 2013 - Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum