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How to use chink in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Chink means a narrow opening such as a fissure or crack. Example: “I noticed a chink of light under the door.”

Examples of chink by meaning

nounA narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.

  • I noticed a chink of light under the door.
  • A chink of light offering a possible settlement to one part of the rail dispute comes as the RMT is to ballot its members at Network Rail on whether to accept an improved offer.2023 March 22, Mel Holley, “Network News: RMT to ballot Network Rail members on improved offer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 12

nounA chip or dent in something metallic.

  • The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.

nounA vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.

  • The chink in the theory is that the invaders have superior muskets.
  • The first chink in Arsenal's relaxed afternoon occurred when key midfielder Samir Nasri pulled up with a hamstring injury and was replaced.2011 January 30, Kevin Darling, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC

verbTo fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

  • to chink a wall

nounA slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.

  • She swallow, set the cup down like she want to break it, and the ice-blocks jump, make a chink sound.2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 138

verbTo make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.

  • The coins were chinking in his pocket.

More sentences with chink

  • 'Cheers, my dears,' chuckles Dottie, raising a glass and chinking it against ours.2021, Erin Green, From Shetland, With Love. From the entry cheers my dears
  • Perhaps the chink in Kroenig's argument is his search for germanophobia.2014, Mark Connelly, We Can Take It!, page 286. From the entry germanophobia
  • Kazak is doing everything to stop the illegaly migration to chink land.2004 December 20, Vernon North, “PRC Chink threatening Kazakhstan”, in soc.culture.asian.american (Usenet). From the entry chink land
  • The metal of the container chinked against the chains at each flicking movement.1997, Bernard MacLaverty, 'Grace Notes' (novel), (Part 1, at page 57 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition). From the entry thurible
  • He wants them to pack their stuff on their boats and sail back to chink land.1989, Joe R. Lansdale, Pat LoBrutto, Razored saddles, page 240. From the entry chink land
  • The sky was cowled with cloud, all except a narrow chink where it met the horizon.1945, Robert W. Service, chapter 8, in Ploughman of the Moon, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 249. From the entry cowl
  • A dozen soup-plates circulated, and a hymn was sung to the accompaniment of much chinking of coin.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry chinking
  • They slept late on Sunday mornings, hearing each other wake as the sun shone through the chinks in the afterclap.2003, Wilbur Smith, The Blue Horizon, New York: St. Martin’s, published 2004, page 263. From the entry afterclap
  • Their spears protruded from the chinks in this formation that was known as the ‘shieldwall’ or ‘war hedge’.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000…. From the entry shield wall
  • NORMAN FORBES' squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow.1920, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920. From the entry spleenful
  • Alf re-lays them two by two, first levelling their sandy beds, and I listen to them chinking xylophonically as he locks them into each other.2007, Ronald Blythe, Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford, page 16. From the entry xylophonically
  • I'm just wondering, how long will those ridiculously incoherent chinks rant about the fictitious militarism in Japan while the communist chinkland is exactly the militarism?2005 April 13, TripleEight, “Boycott 2008 Olympic games in the dumb dictatorial chinkland”, in soc.culture.europe (Usenet). From the entry chinkland
  • But it is possible to find a chink in my armour, and this can be done by suddenly springing eminent loony-doctors on me in the guise of butlers.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV. From the entry sang froid
  • For this reason, I would like to focus on a chink in the armour of professordom: on one of the facets of literary art to which academics pay insufficient attention.2002, Stephen Henighan, When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing, page 109. From the entry professordom

Meaning of chink

  1. noun A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
  2. noun A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
  3. noun A chip or dent in something metallic.

Full definition of chink

Questions about chink in a sentence

How do you use chink in a sentence?
Chink is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I noticed a chink of light under the door.”
What is a short sentence with chink?
“to chink a wall”
What does chink mean?
Chink means a narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.

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