How To Use Clink In A Sentence

As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
He put his hand into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a bubbly, burnt lump of clinker rock. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
The sound of something clinking loudly against metal jolted Chandra out of her thoughts and she looked up quickly.
The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.

Armando stood up, clinking his bottle against Loren's.
Kinamori awoke to the sound of heavy footfalls, the clink of chains following each step.
And let me the cannikin clink," and ending, "Why then let a soldier drink," Cassio commends the excellence of the ditty. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays
The past is violently, thrillingly, even painfully restored to us by the texture of a towel, a stumble on a paving stone, the clinking of a teaspoon against a cup and, yes, the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea.
I laughed, clinking my beer bottle against his glass.
Beneath the thatch we squat in the dust, clink our bottles and drink.
Crunch played a pivotal role in the phone underground thirty years ago, and paid for it with two spells in the clink.
Even the clink of decanter against glass from the editor's office was briefly absent.
‘The Bahamas were beautiful,’ said Janine, a radio travel newsreader for Trafficlink.
Beneath the city's dense urban forest, low walls of Arroyo Seco stone and clinker brick front brown-shingled homes with porches set under graceful overhangs.
But there are far too many sassy waitresses, far too much Jim Beam in clinking glasses, far too many people reckoning instead of thinking – far too much caricature instead of character, in other words. The OLM Blog
An electric three-roll crusher reduces 95% of the clinker to less than 35 mm in size.
When she returned the room was silent again, save for the faint crepitation of his chair and the occasional clink of a bottle. The Invisible Man
Where does chivalry at last become something more than a mere procession of plumes and armor, to be lamented by Burke, except in some of the less ambitious verses of the Trouvères, where we hear the canakin clink too emphatically, perhaps, but which at least paint living men and possible manners? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
The science is in the elodea a water plant bubbling away on the windowsill when the sun hits it, the Newton's cradle clinking for the 27th time by a curious student. Archive 2008-08-01
The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
Of the hands forward, some of the watch were aloft, working at odd jobs about the rigging, while the drowsy clinking of a spunyarn winch somewhere on the forecastle, in the shadow of the head sails, accounted for the remainder. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
Dozens of empty bottles clinked together in corners to the rolling of the ship.
As the glasses clinked and the people chatted about cheeky Cabernets and perfect pinotages, representatives of the wine producers waited anxiously to be put to the test.
The combustion of a vastly increased bulk of pulverized coal and a greatly enlarged combustion zone, extending about forty feet longitudinally into the kiln -- thus providing an area within which the material might be maintained in a clinkering temperature for a sufficiently long period to insure its being thoroughly clinkered from periphery to centre. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
Clinker shipbuilding was a genuine craft, in which the shipwright remained close to his materials.
Griffin offers this advice to other young people who find themselves in the clink: Keep your inmate number to yourself.
Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style. The Certain Hour
She remembered waking to the clink of a spoon in a cup; he was stirring honey into her tea. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
She remembered waking to the clink of a spoon in a cup; he was stirring honey into her tea. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
She went to the drinks table and he heard the clink of glasses, the liquid being poured. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
A fat-eyed parrotfish darted quickly underfoot and Peter swayed, one of his leg braces clinking against the back of a chair. DO NO HARM
The sulfur emissibility during burning cement clinker with calcium sulfate, calcium sulfite gypsum and desulphurize slag that consist of CaSO3 separately were studied in laboratory electric stove.
He had left his men at the church door and came alone, his long sword clinking inside its metal scabbard as he walked closer. Sharpe's Havoc
The rhythmic clink of armor could suddenly be heard through the storm's quieting howl, as if nature itself feared dominance in any way over this being.
These were clinker-built - that is, with timbers overlapping and not laid flush - with flat bottom, straight stem and stern posts, a stern rudder and a single sail.
The building can store as much as 400,000 tons of clinker.
Shapiro bills the series as an unglamorous look at life in the clink and the power of music as a means of rehabilitation.
The department originally issued the antidumping order on gray Portland cement and clinker from Mexico in 1990.
Here some type of a so-called clinker breaker removes the refuse. Steam, Its Generation and Use
In the mean time, Edmund and the guys were at the bar, clinking their beer bottles.
The problem is, he's not a very good one, and finds himself in the clink after a botched attempt to steal a car.
In general, the spininess of the clinkers is inversely proportional to both the thickness of the clinker layer and of the flow itself.
Dampier and Mr Hobby were left alone on their ship, within hearing of the buccaneers, who sang, and danced to the fiddle, and clinked the cannikin, till the moon had set. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
Placing it in my hand, I felt the cold clink of coins.
The clink of glasses is stilled for once over at Uborka to be replaced by the sound of slapped backs and plaudits being handed round.
The crater appears to be composed of a hard grey clinkstone, much fissured; but lower down the mountain, the rock is softer, and has a bluish tinge. The Hawaiian Archipelago
He brought the car to a halt on a patch of clinker near the bank where the rear of a red Audi protruded from a shed. THE BOOK LADY
We learned there are many types of lava: pahoehoe and aa both terms being Hawaiian, naturally, and referring to highly sculpted lava and to lava with jagged clinker on the top you shout "ah ah!" as you walk along the clinker in bare feet. Americana
She clinked her glass against his.
Gold coins clinked in his hand.
It has a heavy percentage of human "clinkers," sometimes in the front pews, sometimes in the pulpit. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder
The permitted operating capacity of the plant is 800,000 tons of clinker per year.
Most people come back from Spain with a donkey and a sombrero and clinking carrier bags.
Keith Clinkscales, a former ESPN executive, is fighting allegations that he once masturbated next to network correspondent Erin Andrews on a plane. ESPN Executive Denies Masturbating Next To Erin Andrews On Plane: Report
Your own prior experience with a clinker marriage does count for something.
Soft clinking noises could be heard as the tiny currency strips hit the bottom and continued to fill even after a few minutes.
The waiter brought over their drinks and Jake clinked his glass to make a toast.
The clank of our umbrellas as we hook them round the coat stand is shocking, like something clinking on a Church floor during prayer.
Marbles, real name Jonathan May-Bowles, was sentenced to six weeks in jail, and his last tweet before heading off to the clink was an "lol" in reply to @hypervocal. Lee Brenner: The Top 10 Stories From 2011 Missing From All the Top 10 Lists
Suddenly, I hit an obvious clinker with my right hand - a wrong note that had never happened before and that sounded pretty stupid.
They clinked the elegant crystal glasses together and the whole night consisted of laughs and champagne.
The preheater-kiln system consumes 5 to 5.4 GJ/t of clinker (4). 2. Energy efficiency in the production of high-energy content building materials
He sees the gaiety of Sundays, the flashes of the sun, the oddity of a crowd carried away by the rhythm of the valses, the laughter, the clinking of glasses, the vibrating and hot atmosphere; and he applies to this spectacle of joyous vulgarity his gifts as a sumptuous colourist, the arabesque of the lines, the gracefulness of his bathers, and the happy eurythmy of his soul. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
But not everyone who visits this exclusive little port considers it prudent to spend the equivalent of the cost of a clinker-built dinghy on a single night's accommodation.
She went to the drinks table and he heard the clink of glasses, the liquid being poured. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
Loose tiles clinked underfoot and I glimpsed spoiled frescoes which had faded, mildewed or simply disappeared under whitewash.
Luca, in scarlet coat and cloak, was beneath the big banner at the entrance watching coins clink into the glass pitcher, clink again as they were dropped into the strongbox. Knife of Dreams
When alarmed they utter a sharp metallic clinking sound rather like that made by a hammer striking an anvil.
Several British convoys fell into our hands, but the food we found on them consisted usually of bully-beef and "clinkers," things which only dire necessity drove us Boers to eat. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
And I saw in a flash what it would be to remain here, or in some such place; never to cross horse again, or breathe the free air of Heaven, never to hear the clink of sword against stirrup, or the rich tones of M. d'Agen's voice calling for his friend! A Gentleman of France
Remaindered brick packs - rough clinkers, chocolate browns, flash fired silvers - were placed randomly along the south elevation, to be laid as required.
Morgan asked me, starting to clink bottles around.
If you could only see so far, just to one side of that same headland, across yon low dikey ground, you would catch sight of the isle of Narborough, the loftiest land of the cluster; no soil whatever; one seamed clinker from top to bottom; abounding in black caves like smithies; its metallic shore ringing under foot like plates of iron; its central volcanoes standing grouped like a gigantic chimney-stack. The Piazza Tales
One room functions as normal, with jukebox music and the clink of glasses drifting through to where the performance takes place.
The prow and stern-post of the boat were in good condition, and a few clinkered boards still hung together, which measured twenty-eight feet and six inches to where they were broken off at each end, showing it to have been a very large boat. Schwatka's Search
Perhaps the most interesting of these were the clench-nails, as these were used to fasten the overlapping long planks of a clinker-built vessel together.
Yet at virtually no time, amid the clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk that rattles through "Dark of the Moon," is there the sense that such a gap has been spanned. 'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty
Anyway Marron made it two with another clinker.
Jim fumbled cash onto the counter, coins clinking and bouncing, bills fluttering. A Corpse is a Corpse
As we stood in the fluorescently lit hallway, the sound of glasses clinking in the background and Louie's cherry Pixie Stix getting shorter, I knew I couldn't keep him much longer. Michelle Cacciatore: The Night I Met Louis C.K.
Or, So let the cannikin clink clink … let the cannikin clink! Since it’s Sheila’s birthday and all… | clusterflock
The two young men clinked their teacups together, validating their deal.
The manacles made an audible clink as they swung back against the wall, and the Knight whirled around.
Everyone said in agreement clinking their cans with Adia's.
The harbour was full of the delicate clink of masts against sails.
But during one of her movements the coins clinked musically. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
An enormous dome, made of concrete, holds the pelletize cement, called clinker, that GCC sells around the middle and western United States. News/local from www.chieftain.com
The clink and chink of the glass was soothing and nerve-wracking all at once.
Some of them, unequally expanded, strained and twisted; its grate-bars and fire-box had become choked with "clinkers," and its tubes charged with coke. The Iron Horse
The empty whisky bottle clinked against the seat.
I use hardwood with coal to keep the temperature up in the firebox (more efficient), and because the coal is reduced completely to ash with no "clinkers" to deal with. VideoHelp.com Forum
So, updates will come a little quicker now, this was the clinker.
A few hours later, he pushed past the swinging door of the taproom, furs replaced by a couple of purchased oddities that clinked in his pack as he moved.
There was a clink as some of the coins rattled to its tin floor.
But unless you can provide evidence of previous unconfessed murders, you're going to stay in the clink?
we clinkered the fire frequently
The two new buddies smirked and clinked their beer bottles as an odd sort of toast.
Nowadays, these wooden clinker-built dinghies are equipped with reliable outboard motors which means you no longer need forearms like Popeye to go afloat on Leven.
With a hollow clink, it once more sat at its customary place, the level of liquid lowered.
Some relics of the hut of Oberlus partially remain to this day at the head of the clinkered valley. The Piazza Tales
He says his third trip to the clink was the hardest. The Parent Trap
The construction would be traditional clinker/lapstrake. [longboat] closed and set to take the north sea
I love a mystery, but not if you hear the gears and wheels clinking and clanking in the background.
But this elegant girl, educated by governesses and teachers, was a stranger to them; they could not understand her, and they instinctively kept closer to "Auntie," who called them by their names, continually pressed them to eat and drink, and, clinking glasses with them, had already drunk two wineglasses of rowanberry wine with them. The Party
champagne glasses clinked to make a toast
The felling of strakes used in its clinker-built hull has been dated by dendrochronology to the 880s.
The scrunch of tyres on the clinker brought Lowery out on deck. THE BOOK LADY
You would think when a bowl hits a tree the sound would be fierce, a loud clatter as stoneware explodes on birch bark dispersing shards in daffodils and grape muscari, but the noise is gentle, a thudding clink like empty bourbon bottles rattling hollow in Monday morning trash; yet this contusion of wood upon ceramic, When a Bowl Hits a Tree
As you hear a penny clink inside the bowl and see the mound accumulate, you'll feel like the golfer whose handicap is dropping or the chess player whose rating is climbing toward master or grandmaster levels. David H. Hendrickson: Measuring Progress
You have Grecian monuments, if anything so misplaced can be called Grecian, imbedded against and cutting into Gothic pillars; the doors shut for the greater part of the day; only a little bit of the building used: beadledom predominant; the clink of money here and there; white-wash in vigour; the singing indifferent; the sermons not indifferent but bad; and some visitors from London forming, perhaps, the most important part of the audience; in fact, the thing having become a show. Friends in Council — First Series
The hoarse grating sound of the saw, the whistling of the plane, and the stroke of the mallet denoted the presence of the carpenter; and the sharper clink of a hammer told of old Fogy, the family "milliner," being at work; but it was not on millinery Fogy was now employed, though neither was it legitimate tinker's work. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
The clink of dishes in the dining room told him that dinner would soon be ready.
(When you had Room 405 on reserve, with the key clinking in your pocket and you couldn't wait to show off your bra-removal ambidexterity.) Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Picking your Pic(k) -- A Primer
The coins clink thickly in the bottom of the charitable chapeau. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
In this paper, the industrial testing results of proportioning and sintering cement clinker with argillaceous shale instead of clay.
If Holly ever was stuck in the clink, she'd be in charge in no time flat.
It was like a surge of current, as she pulled up her posture, wrapped an apron around her waist, and begin clinking and clanging the cups and the spoons, putting hot water on the stove to boil, and just being in charge. Archive 2005-11-01
Some members there clinked glasses and gave thumbs-up signs as they watched the verdict at the cozy first-floor bar.
The apartment was quiet except for the occasional clink of her fork on the plate.
He put his hand into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a bubbly, burnt lump of clinker rock. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
This material is variously termed ash, clinker, cinders or slag.
You open bottles, clink them against your friends' bottles, and dress them up in little cozies to keep them cold.
These are long narrow clinker or carvel-built vessels which in a heavy sea have a rather peculiar motion.
The frames had been adzed to remove the sharp angle of a land, or notch, which originally housed the edge of the clinker plank.
One simply cannot ignore the "clinkers," whatever one makes of the overall performance. Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
But with blessed juices flowing, chocolate coins clinking against the tile floor, and kids screaming encouragement at their dreidels -- that didn't really seem like a problem. Adam Valen Levinson: Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: A Christmas Story
Shakespeare's lyrics to music of the old English school, such as his uproarious "Let me the cannikin clink," and his dainty "Tell me where is fancy bred. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
The custom of clinking glasses and meeting a drinking partner's gaze when you ‘skol’ them, is rooted in the Viking warrior tradition of ensuring that no one had poisoned their drink.
The bottles slid down their slots, greeting their brothers with a satisfying clink.
He folds the newspaper, and takes the coffee cup out of my hand, resting it with a clink on the table in front of us.
There's a warm fug in the lounge of the Acomb Working Men's Club: drifting cigarette smoke mingled with the clink of glasses and neighbourly chat.
Most show Obama as a world leader, bestriding the global stage – towering over Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel in one, clinking beers with David Cameron in another. Barack Obama's down but not out
I spent 24 hours in the clink, and ever since I've been seeing ghost faces everywhere.
Glass thimbles of home-distilled raki were raised and clinked.
The cantina was filled with spirits, of the rough sort; I asked for the washroom, feeling the sure clink of change and damp currency in my sock pocket.
The clergyman was just going to knock when he heard a clinking noise, and turning saw through the open door of a black shed just behind him an elderly woman in a black lace cap stooping among reddish big cans, pouring a very bright liquid into a tundish. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
A large click came from inside the door, followed by another short series of clinks and clangs.
The sintered material is cooled to form cement clinker.
Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their The Certain Hour
She went to the drinks table and he heard the clink of glasses, the liquid being poured. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
Just to prove it, he's nursing an orange juice as we talk, clinking the ice when he wants to make a point.
To the extent possible, the concrete mixture should incorporate Portland cement of one type, made with clinker from a single source, and manufactured at the same plant.
Soon after the school opened, I signed up and learned how to belay and rappel, and about the play of rock climbing on the senses: the clink of the hammer on a piton, the warmth of the sunlit granite under my hand, the radiant clouds sailing overhead. Yosemite's Rock Stars
On the other side there was a lull in the conversation, but the breathing of several men, the occasional light tinkling of some ornaments, the clink of metal scabbards, or of brass siri-vessels passed from hand to hand, was audible during the short pause. Almayer's Folly
The expected decrease of duty on cement and clinker from Rs 400 per tonne to Rs 350 per tonne didn't happen.
A pervasive gloom hung over this place, woven into the very stillness of the air, disturbed only by the thud of hooves on fallen leaves and now and then a soft clink as one of the mares champed her bit.
He was happiest at home, with his children, and later alone on his little old clinker-built boat, the Curlew, sailing the muddy waters of the Thames estuary. In the Frame
He sympathizes with them on the way to the clink.
The singer hit a real clinker.
Rachel was answering questions, the clink of a bottle to make her words convincing. THE OPEN DOOR
But when the six percussionists timidly clink their cymbals, it's hard to keep thinking they're high priests presiding over a purgative rite.
The ice clinked as she dropped it into the glass.
Only the sound of spoons clinking against china could be heard for a few minutes while the huge windows lit the room with no help from artificial light.
In addition, the plant has 11 air cannons installed on the clinker cooler.
The coins clinked against the plates, rolled between the silverware, and formed piles. Plain Language
Your china cup couldn't clink that high D, your shoe wouldn't squeak, you wouldn't be able to utter or hear a sound.
Another is a rounded piece of clinker, a porous material that results from the burning of coal seams.
Thirdly, reduce the clinker content in cement, by intergrinding cementious material like slag, fly ash, or limestone.
Undoubtedly, to the steady clink of glass and ice, the word will pass: he's sound; he's one of us; he's a safe pair of hands.
P.S. Dukester is going to the clink, the big house, the hoosgow, the tank. Think Progress » Cunningham and MZM: The White House Connection
She clinked her glass against his.
The scrunch of tyres on the clinker brought Lowery out on deck. THE BOOK LADY
To avoid bulges or the annoying sound of coins clinking, try to keep your pockets empty.
Hoyt's armor clinked and clanked with each step he took.
With additional analysis of shipping market development, the study also includes detailed appraisals of cement and clinker imports and exports.
Bed clinkering threaten startup of CFB boiler.
It seemed to me that she wasn't traumatized at the end with the clinker.
The scrunch of tyres on the clinker brought Lowery out on deck. THE BOOK LADY
As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
In the hallway outside, a scuffle of feet . A clink of metal.
If clinker is found on the ground, a coal seam is bound to be underneath. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Insufficiently Deferential D.C. Circuit?
The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night.
Soon after this, a shadow fell over the shopwindow and the snorting of horses and clink of harnesses was audible. The Thief Taker
Tadeusz told her he'd bought it as a virtual wreck because he'd fallen in love with its sleek clinker-built lines. THE LAST TEMPTATION
This material is variously termed ash, clinker, cinders or slag.
I invested in a snazzy pin-on mic to counter the ambient sound of chattering and clinking china.
All around, partygoers clinked glasses together; some pointed to the moon slowly eclipsing in the sky. Live and Let Love
At six o’clock or so, the quiet clink of breakfast spoon on cereal bowl would travel from the kitchen and down the hall to my bedroom.
Alex returns with a bottle of wine and 2 glasses, he fills then to the brim and clinks glasses with you.
QUOTATION: When the liquors out, why clink the cannikin? Quotations
The wolf was just moving away, when he heard the medals clinking, and he stopped to listen.
But the third are black with clinkered sin that cannot burn again: Verses 1889-1896
I recall the clink as the razor bounced off the sink, and the scarlet drops that followed hitting the cold enamel surface.
At its peak the mix reaches 1, 450C before exiting as a hard, gritty material called clinker.
The cutter was clinker-built and only cutters meant for foreign service were ever carvel-built.
As for Win Jenkins, she has undergone a perfect metamurphysis, and is become a new creeter from the ammunition of Humphry Clinker, our new footman, a pious young man, who has laboured exceedingly, that she may bring forth fruits of repentance. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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The scrunch of tyres on the clinker brought Lowery out on deck. THE BOOK LADY
I traveled on and remembered how when I was a boy I'd grow tired of reading stories about pirates and drop my book and run outside to roll down the portside of Olive Street Hill, climb back up and try the starboard side, dreaming the whole time treasures were coins clinking in your hand, joy was buying the next round. Pirate
The coins are clinking in his pocket.
Young men were stripped to the waist and fighting to the clink of wagered coins and shouts of encouragement.
In April 1630, Fr Southworth was transferred to the Clink, London but a month later was released along with 15 other priests through the intervention of Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, who achieved reprieves for many condemned Catholic priests. Saint John Southworth
A first time offender for a copyright infringement violation could receive five years in the clink and a fine of $250,000.
His fingers slowly relaxed and the coin clinked into the plate. The Foolish Virgin
This opening shot sees our young hero in a Jamaican clink in 1802, charged with mutiny and facing the hangman's rope.
He taps her glass with a ringing clink and starts to drink the champagne, savoring the taste.
Extra bonus points if you've inserted three beer bottles on your fingers and clinked the bottles whilst loudly chanting.
Over the pop of champagne, the clink of glasses raised in cheer, the clatter of china in the kitchen, one can almost hear conversation and laughter throughout these pages.
The clinker is that the chain decides which Canadian authors they will display and advertise from a list of authors that the six publishers submit. Independents Falling: Correction or Foreshadowing?

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