Clink

//klɪŋk//

"Clink" in a Sentence (10 examples)

She held out the wine glass expecting someone to clink it.

When the knees sway, it is the feet that clink.

The glasses clink against one another when we do "cheers."

Vladimir heard the metal hangers clink against each other.

You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.

The hammers clinked on the stone all night.

The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, / Unlifted was the clinking latch, / Weeded and worn the ancient thatch / upon the lonely moated grange.

On the other side: the rich, beautiful tapestry of WASP culture that constituted Levis's life—friends playing horseshoes at backyard cocktail parties, where girls swanned in chaise longues, clinking their gin and tonics.

If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.

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