A distant tinkle answered, but there was no other response.

There was a noise, a long way away, a distant tinkle.

There were shouts from below, and a distant tinkle of something breaking, crockery or glass.

Through the half-opened door of the apartment came the distant tinkle of a telephone bell.

It was a kind of ululation audible above the distant tinkle of the moving water: the cry of a wounded animal, perhaps.

Nohar felt a hot breeze on his cheek as he heard the distant bell-like tinkle of cascading glass.

Carol Aronson, the night charge nurse on seventeen, was in the medication room drawing up an antibiotic when she heard the distant tinkle of breaking glass.

We heard a few gentle coughs, a distant tinkle of bells.

Then there was the distant tinkle of a banjo being tuned.

A distant tinkle of a bell made all her nerves suddenly quiver.