plinking

I did try that bit with the sound but you couldn't hear what the guy was saying because of the plinking.

Your back range free, to where he could do a little plinking?"

But as usual with late Kubrick, the aspirations seem more haunting than the plinking.

The plinking grew louder as she resumed walking.

The Model 69 was originally marketed primarily for hunting and informal plinking rather than formal target shooting.

This is because of the awful plinking and drumming that goes on incessantly during the current genre of programmes.

You would hear all this ploinking and plinking of water in various pans and buckets scattered around the apartment.

With the insert removed, the sight was less accurate but offered more light-making it better for small game hunting and informal plinking.

But most of Debut sounds annoyingly like the monotonous plinking of a deranged music box.

If my ears were functioning, I'd surely have heard a rhythmically pleasant plinking as the drops struck cloudy pools.

Sad guitar-string plinking was followed by Bobby crooning:

Colazzo had come to the water-filled rock pit just south of the Tamiami Trail that morning to do some plinking.

Polaney seemed fixed there for a moment, then opened his mouth and began to sing, to the plinking of one banjo accompaniment: 'Sunshine is nicer.

Given up would be recreational "plinking" in the countryside and, in the most controversial effect, the ability of most people to buy handguns for self-protection.

Zimbabwe The steady, triple-time plinking of the mbira, or thumb piano, runs through Zimbabwean rock.

Their sound has been described as a "plinking and plunking, buzzing, sweeping, ringing, droning, and wailing acoustic construction."

After World War II, the M1 Carbine became a popular plinking and ranch rifle.

The plinking of the mbira, or thumb piano, creates marvelous patterns, moves dancers and summons spirits in the traditional music of Zimbabwe.

With percussion, voices and the orderly plinking of the mbiras, the music layered on syncopations until it seemed to multiply the number of musicians onstage.

His terse melodic lines and darting, cascading phrases balance on the steady plinking of a balafon (marimba) in delicate, transparent music.

It was even fun sometimes to take the BB gun up there and do a little plinking into the herd down below, keep them moving; good for the digestion.

"Uptight," a plinking, tapping assemblage of percussive sounds, vocal chorale and low-key lead vocal, could be a more austere Cars song.

It was not like having a musical member of the family, always practicing and driving the rest of us nuts with the screeching, tooting, or plinking of an instrument.

The only sounds were the plinking of rain on the window and the clinking of glasses and bottles being sorted behind the mirrored bar by a rather slight black man.

"Eyeball Kid" was barked over the steady, dissonant plinking of a percussion menagerie - marimba, slit drum, glockinspiel - while "What's He Building?"