How To Use Clinking In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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They walked with humped shoulders, lawn chairs in tow, without so much as a sound, save for the clinking of car-keys in ready.
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A thud echoed through the room, and the sound of metal clinking on porcelain could be heard downstairs.
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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.
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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.
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With a light shake of his head, Michael laughed and drained the last of his Coke, square ice cubes clinking against the clear glass.
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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
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We started with the rakia, clinking our glasses together for the customary toasts of ‘Nazdrave!’
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Yet the din emanating from the country's corporate boardrooms is not that of clinking champagne glasses and boisterous merrymaking.
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The chink of a clinking champagne glass and a silver teaspoon drew everybody's attention.
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(Soundbite of coin clinking on table) PESCA: Here you go.
Replay Smoosh Raises the Lights with 'Dark Shine'
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I went miserably to the living room, flicking blindly through a book as I listened to the sound of running water and clinking china.
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‘You start drinking that,’ he said, still ignoring Fiona, and clinking her bottle with his.
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Both Julian and I followed suit, clinking our beer against Blake's.
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With a sinking feeling, she backed up a few more steps, before she heard an ominous sound; armor clinking in the entrance hall.
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To the mother it seemed perfectly American, the America she admired, culled from literature, handpicked fruit—Nineteenth Century and Yankee Emily Dickinson, later—Twentieth Century, waspy, Cheeveresque, ice clinking in a martini glass.
Still Life, With Girl
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The coins are clinking in his pocket.
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Aside from the light clinking sounds of silverware against expensive china, no one spoke a word.
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You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk ...
Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Alliteration
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Dusk slowly came and still the walls of the pub echoed with laughter and the sound of clinking flagons and plates.
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A tall, well-muscled and handsome man strode in wearing a heavy cloak, fur-lined boots and clinking chain mail.
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Her concentration was so strong she didn't even hear footsteps and clinking dishes approaching.
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From below, I heard chairs being pulled to the table, serving spoons double-clinking my hot food onto each plate, ice water from the aluminum pitcher glugging into glasses.
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The sounds of clinking glasses, shouting voices with the undertones of murmuring conversation, and the flickering of flame radiated from the mucky place.
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All one hears is the sound of conversation and the clinking of flatware on utilitarian white dishes.
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'Clinking, clanking, caliginous collections of junk.'
Moonwar
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There was another rustling movement, then a sharp clacking noise, the sound of huge claws clinking against the stone floor.
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Instead, guests are enchanted by the sounds of laughter and clinking wine glasses.
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He undid a string, and in an instant a pile of gold and silver rattled down upon the cloth, the coins whirling and clinking among the dishes.
The Stark Munro Letters
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Just as he put his cup up to the machine, he heard a sound of metal clinking upon metal behind him.
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Physicians who hear the sound of coins clinking have incentive to recommend procedures that cost a lot but may have dubious benefit.
Not So Routine Physicals
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The belts attached to it make clinking sounds as I walk quickly past the people, my eyes downcast.
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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
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Jim fumbled cash onto the counter, coins clinking and bouncing, bills fluttering.
A Corpse is a Corpse
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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
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When alarmed they utter a sharp metallic clinking sound rather like that made by a hammer striking an anvil.
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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)
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The clank of our umbrellas as we hook them round the coat stand is shocking, like something clinking on a Church floor during prayer.
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Soft clinking noises could be heard as the tiny currency strips hit the bottom and continued to fill even after a few minutes.
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Most people come back from Spain with a donkey and a sombrero and clinking carrier bags.
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In the mean time, Edmund and the guys were at the bar, clinking their beer bottles.
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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.
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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I laughed, clinking my beer bottle against his glass.
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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.
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Armando stood up, clinking his bottle against Loren's.
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The sound of something clinking loudly against metal jolted Chandra out of her thoughts and she looked up quickly.
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Everyone said in agreement clinking their cans with Adia's.
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I love a mystery, but not if you hear the gears and wheels clinking and clanking in the background.
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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
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(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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Just to prove it, he's nursing an orange juice as we talk, clinking the ice when he wants to make a point.
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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.
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To avoid bulges or the annoying sound of coins clinking, try to keep your pockets empty.
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I invested in a snazzy pin-on mic to counter the ambient sound of chattering and clinking china.
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The wolf was just moving away, when he heard the medals clinking, and he stopped to listen.
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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
