jangle

The “soothing” sound in this video, apparently, is the jangle of chains.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025

There's credit in the bank and time on their side, but Clarke and his team will want their fate sealed as soon as possible before the nerves start to jangle.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

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.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

Even with 2 inches of rain that softened the course, the front that cleared out the clouds brought enough wind to jangle the nerves at every turn.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

Stepping away to widen the space between Uma and me, I concentrate on the rhythm of the music, the thump of feet, the jangle of silver, and the story the twelve of us are telling.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

In the hours before the final, Pan Wenge’s silver headdress jingles and jangles as she speaks enthusiastically, preparing to cheer on Dongmen village.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024

She used that period to build the homespun rhythms that created the album’s unique nervous system: the percussive instrumentation includes “collar jangles and thrashing”, “lighter on Wurlitzer” and “water tower”.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2020

As Dionysus’s nonbinary energy jangles the wiring of the staid suburbanites, releasing something wild in them, it also unleashes something wild in the play.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2019

I’ve never listened to heavy rock or stuff that jangles my nerves, because I’m already jangled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2017

The spoon drops and jangles on the floor.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

As dusk fell, some activists put on goggles and helmets, carried makeshift shields, jangled tambourines and beat drums as they prepared for another standoff with law enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

He jangled the prop handcuffs he was already wearing.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2023

One of her talents is rock band drummer and she uses her drumsticks to pound out her jangled feelings.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

But if the headlines stemming from the annual report of the Social Security trustees jangled you, take a deep breath.

From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2023

The bell had rung over a dozen times, and I was going up on my toes for a second turn when the door flew open with such force, the bell jangled all by itself.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Trump used a fat black marker pen to sign the deal, with the crockery jangling on the table after the dinner or lobster and caviar, as he put pen to paper.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

And because it’s Area, hardware was plentiful in distressed leather jackets jangling and dripping with silver spikes and chain mail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024

A jangling set of house keys was once synonymous with American success: the striver’s ultimate prize.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

For all her careening and jangling, Ess knew to be gentle and still with the fragile thing.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder