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How to use kink in a sentence

25 example sentences · verb, noun

Kink means to laugh loudly. Example: “We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.”

Examples of kink by meaning

nounA tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.

  • We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.

nounA difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.

  • They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.

nounAn unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.

  • Most people can, if you encourage their kink.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 17

nounPeculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.

  • No more kink.1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere)
  • To top it all off, Lynn is into kink.2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13

nounA person with peculiar sexual tastes.

  • “He's a kink.2013, James Hadley Chase, A Can of Worms

More sentences with kink

  • This is a beta version; we're still working out the kinks.From the entry work out
  • It also plays in my with diaper stuffing kink as a natural lead in.2019 January 13, @KoboldLaz, Twitter. From the entry diaper stuffing
  • Then you can blow every blowable object in the honeymoon suite, if you so fancy such kink.2014, Leith Lachlan Wulf, The Scandalous Ecstasies of the Statuesque Sensationalists, page 311. From the entry blowable
  • Scenes like this confirm Em McAvan's point that the Buffyverse associates bisexuality with kink (paragraph 15).2010, Lewis Call, “Slaying the Heteronormative: Representations of Alternative Sexuality in Buffy Season Eight Comics”, in Erin B.…. From the entry Buffyverse
  • The ship of kink sails troubled waters indeed but sail on it does.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex…. From the entry troubled waters
  • Enlarge the hole with a needle file to avoid “hamfisting” and kinking the tail-rotor rod.1991 June, Datu Ramel, “Kyosho EP Concept”, in Tom Atwood, editor, Model Airplane News, Wilton, Conn.: Air Age, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88…. From the entry hamfist
  • It is hard to follow the kinks of woman suffrage ratiocination.1916 June 8, “Suffrage at Chicago”, in The New York Times. From the entry ratiocination
  • Mascots in kink, I just have no clue lmao.2025 May 25, @littleashenone.bsky.social, Bluesky. From the entry diaper corset
  • It’s important to note, however, that fetishes are more specific and demanding than the general umbrella of kink.2018 March 8, Jess Joho, “It's okay if 'Shape of Water' made you horny”, in Mashable. From the entry teratophile
  • That’s when the full impact of medieval kink hit home.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry hit home
  • Well, it's her kink, and it's okay.1998 April 14, TyMeDwn1st, “::grumbles:: Stupid checker....”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet). From the entry YKINMKBYKIOK
  • With any great amount of overtwist, the yarn just kinks up and will not go through the orifice.1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry overtwist
  • My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.1903, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “A Sandshore Wooing”, in Short Stories: 1902-1903. From the entry obstreperous
  • That said, there are people - men and women - who kink on the idea of non-reciprocated service; they enjoy feeling "used".2009 November 23, Tom Allen, “doing fantasy”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet). From the entry kink on
  • Fabric elements such as twin lamellae, kink bands, translation and gliding in some crystals are some of the petrofabric features at micro-level.1993 January 13, T.S. Nagaraj, Principles of Testing Soils, Rocks and Concrete, Elsevier, page 311. From the entry petrofabric
  • Many kink communities have a TNG group in their area, and local dungeons will have TNG play party nights where only members who are 18-35 can attend.2020, Jessica M. W. Kratzer, “Kinky Access: Information Provided to Young Adult Kinksters by ‘The Next Generation’ Groups on Fetlife.com”…. From the entry tng
  • For autochorissexual participants, kinks and fetishes were understood as part of an individual’s unique desires and fantasies, which were either undesirable – or impossible – to experience in real-life.2019, Thom Winter-Gray, Nikki Hayfield, “'Can I be a kinky ace?': How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes”…. From the entry autochorissexual
  • Bradly's stomach kinked in on itself, thinking of Cora struck silly with that corpse on her hands and the copper bullying the truth out of her.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 218. From the entry bully
  • An unconscious mechanism is a kink in the mind that makes people do something without knowing why they do it, and often without knowing that they are doing it.1927, John Dos Passos, Facing the Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen, Boston, Mass.: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense…. From the entry unintention

Meaning of kink

  1. verb To laugh loudly.
  2. verb To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
  3. noun A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.

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Questions about kink in a sentence

How do you use kink in a sentence?
Kink is used as a verb and noun. For example: “We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.”
What is a short sentence with kink?
“No more kink.”
What does kink mean?
Kink means to laugh loudly.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kink (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.

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