Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use cinch in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Cinch means a simple saddle girth used in Mexico. Example: “This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps.”

Examples of cinch by meaning

nounA simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

  • He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.1915, B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand

nounSomething that is very easy to do.

  • We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.1913, Major Archibald Lee Fletcher, Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns
  • It was a cinch.2003, Clive Selwood, All the Moves (but None of the Licks), page 33
  • Zelly settled into being such a happy, well-behaved infant that she became what Shannon calls a “decoy baby”—the kind that tricks other young couples into thinking that having kids is a cinch.2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 2, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York...

nounSomething that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.

  • As a matter of fact, from the look of Elmer's shoulder, it wasn't a cinch that he would ever pitch again.1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post

nounA firm hold.

  • You've got the cinch on him.1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale,

verbTo tighten down.

  • Then finally the saddle was cinched.1954, Troy Nesbit [pseudonym; Franklin Folsom], “Sacking Out”, in Sand Dune Pony (Wilderness Mysteries; 1), Racine, Wis.: Whitman...
  • I cinched the straps on my lifejacket a bit tighter and held on for dear life.2022, Amour Vincit Omnia, “Why The Price Of Love Is Pain”, in Agapé, volume 22, number 1, page 5

More sentences with cinch

  • This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps.From the entry ratchet
  • While standing or sitting, the puborectalis helps to keep us continent by cinching our bowel closed.2018 November 30, Alex Blasdel, The Guardian. From the entry puborectalis
  • Time Travel’s a cinch compared to fooling the greats of magic all the way up Magicianry’s ladder.2018, A. Reneé Olesiewicz, The Wonderer: A Darby, Baird & Co. Novel, Wisconsin: TypeWritten Smitten Publishing, →ISBN, page 224. From the entry magicianry
  • It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.2005 August 29, The New Yorker, page 78. From the entry canard
  • Cinch up smoothly and by degrees to avoid making a horse "cinchy."2001, Mary Twelveponies, There are No Problem Horses, Only Problem Riders, page 220. From the entry cinchy
  • These prices are for saddle with single cinch and two latigoes.1999, [1938], edited by Victor M. Linoff, Saddle and Western Gear Catalog, 1938, page 41. From the entry latigo
  • Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.2013, “Nadia Popova”, in The Economist. From the entry dart
  • Cinches fasten with a latigo strap that is already attached to the saddle, using a special flat knot.2013, Gincy Self Bucklin, The Gentle Art of Horseback Riding, page 142. From the entry latigo
  • Twice we got fouled and missed the front end of one-and-ones that could have pretty much cinched it for us.2011, Clyde Drexler, Kerry Eggers, Jim Nantz, Clyde the Glide: My Life in Basketball, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry one-and-one
  • "– – Engeneerin' is a cinch – All y' gotta do is shove one thingamajigg an' pull 'nother – –"1924, Hal Roach, H. M. Walker, Our Gang: The Sun Down Limited, retrieved 30 Mar 2023. From the entry thingamajig
  • I used to think you writing-guys must have a hard job making up pieces, but Lord, it's a cinch.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 159. From the entry lam out
  • If you cinch her up like that she'll unbloat soon as you get on her, and throw you and roll the saddle down under her belly, then go wild.1995, Elizabeth Crook, Promised Lands: A Novel of the Texas Rebellion, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry unbloat

Meaning of cinch

  1. noun A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
  2. noun Something that is very easy to do.
  3. noun Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.

Full definition of cinch

Questions about cinch in a sentence

How do you use cinch in a sentence?
Cinch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps.”
What is a short sentence with cinch?
“It was a cinch.”
What does cinch mean?
Cinch means a simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cinch (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use cinch in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/cinch. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.