CHINK in a Sentence
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31 example sentences for CHINK, such as:
1. They each looked through a chink in the boards.
2. Through a chink she could see a bit of blue sky.
3. He watched them secretly, through a chink in the wall.
4. Nothing was heard but the chump of jaws and the chink of glasses.
5. I peered through a chink in the curtains and saw them all inside.
2. Through a chink she could see a bit of blue sky.
3. He watched them secretly, through a chink in the wall.
4. Nothing was heard but the chump of jaws and the chink of glasses.
5. I peered through a chink in the curtains and saw them all inside.
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Meanings and Examples of CHINK
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chink
v. make cracks or chinks in
n. a short light metallic sound
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 Always I hear corrupt murmurs; the chink of gold and metal.
2 Nothing was heard but the chump of jaws and the chink of glasses.
3 They each looked through a chink in the boards.
4 Amid the soft juicy vegetation of the hollow in which they sat, the motionless and the uninhabited solitude, intruded the chink of guineas, the rattle of dice, the exclamations of the reckless players.
5 Securing one, he returned to the window, and holding the moth to the chink, opened his hand.
6 Then it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
Context Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
7 Accordingly he peeped through the chink of the door whence her head had recently protruded, and, on seeing her seated at a tea table, entered and greeted her with a cheerful, kindly smile.
8 In short, he did all that a man is apt to do when he is not only alone, but also certain that he is handsome and that no one is regarding him through a chink.
9 He now hit upon a half-open door, through a chink of which a faint light shone.
10 In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink through which the eye could just penetrate.
11 Tom and Huck rose up, weak but vastly relieved, and stared after them through the chinks between the logs of the house.
12 There was an old horse-blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through the chinks and putting the candle out.
13 But the eye of love had already seen, even through the narrow chinks of the wooden palisades, the movement of the white robe, and observed the fluttering of the blue sash.
14 If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance.
15 I think it was over the kitchen, because a warm greasy smell appeared to come up through the chinks in the floor, and there was a flabby perspiration on the walls.
Example Sentence:
1 He watched them secretly, through a chink in the wall.
2 I peered through a chink in the curtains and saw them all inside.
3 Through a chink she could see a bit of blue sky.
4 There was an old horse blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through the chinks and putting the candle out.