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clinking

[ UK /klˈɪŋkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped

How To Use clinking In A Sentence

  • 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 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.
  • They walked with humped shoulders, lawn chairs in tow, without so much as a sound, save for the clinking of car-keys in ready.
  • A thud echoed through the room, and the sound of metal clinking on porcelain could be heard downstairs.
  • Within seconds, the three of us are chugging away at the front of the balcony, clinking glasses and bottles with the merry throng around us.
  • A loud clinking sound of steel meeting steel rang out throughout the woods and sparks flew from our weapons as they ground against one another.
  • With a light shake of his head, Michael laughed and drained the last of his Coke, square ice cubes clinking against the clear glass.
  • Lights began to glitter now in the cots of the thralls, and brighter still in the stithies where already you might hear the hammers clinking on the anvils, as men fell to looking to their battle gear. The House of the Wolfings
  • We started with the rakia, clinking our glasses together for the customary toasts of ‘Nazdrave!’
  • Yet the din emanating from the country's corporate boardrooms is not that of clinking champagne glasses and boisterous merrymaking.
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