Diane Ackerman

Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

American Poet

Jack Bruce

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

Musician

Art Buchwald

Men and women cannot live by bread alone. They must also tinkle. Show me someone who has no trouble tinkling, and I will show you a happy and rich person.

American Journalist

Lisa Stansfield

I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.

English Musician

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

American Writer

Use 'tinkle' to describe delicate sounds, like small bells or chimes.

Light Sound

'Tinkle' often conjures up peaceful and gentle imagery.

Serene Imagery

In poetry, 'tinkle' can be used to give a light, lyrical quality to verses.

Poetic Use

'Tinkle' is a gentle, less direct way to talk about urination with children.

Childlike Connotation

Adults may use 'tinkle' humorously to lighten the conversation.

Gentle Euphemism

Use 'tinkle' as a noun to add atmospheric detail to a setting.

Atmospheric Detail

'Tinkle' suggests small, delicate objects rather than anything large.

Indicative of Size

Use 'tinkle' as a noun to kindly address bathroom needs without embarrassment.

Minimize Embarrassment

Despite its informality, 'tinkle' isn't appropriate in formal or serious contexts.

Informal Context

 and once released, they were uncontainable. As she wept, Pandora became aware of a sound echoing from within the box. This was not the eerie whispering of demons, but a light tinkling that seemed to ease her anguish. When she once again lifted the lid and peered in,

The myth of Pandora’s...

 sticky lunch I don't think of the whaling yar the whaling occurs in this area a little bit - never seen that let's check the tinkling so they tinkling so sickly we don't get you

Tinkle

Light Sound

Serene Imagery

Poetic Use

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