How to Use clink in a Sentence

clink

1 of 2 verb

• When she'd completed the toast, they clinked glasses.
• Iris stands up abruptly, and the glasses in Ben’s hands clink.
  — Clare Sestanovich, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• The shells clinked like coins falling from a slot machine.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• Each fragment clinked as it was dropped in a plastic cup.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
• Swift raised her Cosmo in salute and clinked glasses around the table.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
• The glass can clink together and break in the bag without padded dividers.
  — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 27 July 2023
• Try to clink on things in the menu and review 2nd or 3rd level pages, as scammers don’t often have time to build these out.
  — Robin Ryan, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Reynolds clinked glasses with the Pearl owner Luther Pinckney.
  — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Corn starch works both as a thickener for the sauce and also helps it to clink to the vegetables better.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 27 Feb. 2023
• In the first pic, the quartet smile for the camera while clinking their Champagne glasses and then take a sip of bubbly in the second.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2023
• From The Lede Ready to clink glasses, throw confetti and celebrate the arrival of 2023?
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 17 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, guests clinked their glasses to encourage Joey and Jess, 24, to kiss, and Rachel, 26, gave a touching speech.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• Basel offers a dizzying amount of options for those looking to clink cocktail classes and dance on the beach till the early hours of the night.
  — Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• The cubes clink against the sides and slowly melt around me, bringing my body temperature back to bearable.
  — Katie Lockhart, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2024
• Next comes the row of campus garages wrapped with metal screens—everything is sculpture, maybe—which ripple and clink in the wind.
  — Danielle Dutton, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• Pictures show the 818 founder mixing cocktails behind the bar, clinking glasses with the chef, and posing of course.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 12 Aug. 2023
• Take your wine haul and relax in the backyard, on a balcony or on the couch, clink your glasses and ask Mom to regale you with stories from her youth.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• Now, for Frank, home sounds like laughter and coffee cups clinking over breakfast.
  — Refinery29 Team, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• Pink, who seemingly snapped the picture, held her glass of beer out as her husband, seated across the table from her, clinked his own beer against hers.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 7 Jan. 2024
• Other off-base fans want to clink metaphorical glasses of chianti with him.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 28 June 2020
• Making fences with hanging metal strips that clink and clank in the wind, also known as Kasaine fences, makes for a good noise deterrent.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• Ready to clink glasses, throw confetti and celebrate the arrival of 2022?
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 27 Dec. 2021
• Dressed in cocktail attire, attendees clinked glasses and snapped selfies with Crump and the Fearless Fund founders.
  — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
• In the kitchen department, check out the deals on handy appliances, cookware, and festive glassware, like this champagne flute set that’s begging to be clinked on New Year’s Eve.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
• Dear Miss Manners: When people get together and make a toast, everyone wants to clink glasses.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• Cityzen bar is an exceptional place to clink margaritas over the twinkling lights of the world’s largest Spanish-speaking city.
  — David Hochman, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• The Democrat and Republican pour two fingers each, then clink glasses.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Marion worked the ball to one of its leading scorers, Kiera Neal, who was forced into an off-balance floater that clinked off the rim and was rebounded by Mears with 0.3 second left.
  — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2023
• Biles also posted a clip of her, Moore and another off-camera friend clinking their pink drinks, captioning it with a series of lemon emojis in a nod to the night's theme.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
• Yellow ribbons and silver bells – tied to tree branches in solidarity with Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza – fluttered and clinked in the wind.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024

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clink

2 of 2 noun

• The only sound is the goat-bell-like clink of boat rigs.
  — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2021
• Just then Mistuss Margery speared a fillet of bluefish—a sharp clink!
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• Two taps of the sentry’s cane on the ancient stone floor signals a change of guard, ushering in a clink of spurs and swords.
  — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• There’s a thud and a clink and with a whir — really more of a purring sound — the floor of Steinmetz Hall springs into action.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• There’s nothing more festive than that pop of Champagne and a resounding clink of glasses to ring in the holiday season.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• Who could have imagined that this small celebration, this enduring tradition — a clink and a cheers! — would be torn from us for a year or more?
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 27 Apr. 2021
• Just his expressionless face and the sharp clink of tiny metal—Mistuss Margery hotly poking at pieces of fish, heedless that no one else had been served.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• In the spirit of other great live jazz recordings of the past, his discography asserts those venues as musical personalities themselves: babbling patrons become a rowdy counterpoint, the looped clink of glasses and silverware a subtle ostinato.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• The only sound is the goat-bell-like clink of boat rigs.
  — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2021
• Just then Mistuss Margery speared a fillet of bluefish—a sharp clink!
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• Two taps of the sentry’s cane on the ancient stone floor signals a change of guard, ushering in a clink of spurs and swords.
  — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• There’s a thud and a clink and with a whir — really more of a purring sound — the floor of Steinmetz Hall springs into action.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• There’s nothing more festive than that pop of Champagne and a resounding clink of glasses to ring in the holiday season.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• Who could have imagined that this small celebration, this enduring tradition — a clink and a cheers! — would be torn from us for a year or more?
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 27 Apr. 2021
• Just his expressionless face and the sharp clink of tiny metal—Mistuss Margery hotly poking at pieces of fish, heedless that no one else had been served.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• In the spirit of other great live jazz recordings of the past, his discography asserts those venues as musical personalities themselves: babbling patrons become a rowdy counterpoint, the looped clink of glasses and silverware a subtle ostinato.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• The only sound is the goat-bell-like clink of boat rigs.
  — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2021
• Just then Mistuss Margery speared a fillet of bluefish—a sharp clink!
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• Two taps of the sentry’s cane on the ancient stone floor signals a change of guard, ushering in a clink of spurs and swords.
  — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• There’s a thud and a clink and with a whir — really more of a purring sound — the floor of Steinmetz Hall springs into action.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• There’s nothing more festive than that pop of Champagne and a resounding clink of glasses to ring in the holiday season.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• Who could have imagined that this small celebration, this enduring tradition — a clink and a cheers! — would be torn from us for a year or more?
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 27 Apr. 2021
• Just his expressionless face and the sharp clink of tiny metal—Mistuss Margery hotly poking at pieces of fish, heedless that no one else had been served.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• In the spirit of other great live jazz recordings of the past, his discography asserts those venues as musical personalities themselves: babbling patrons become a rowdy counterpoint, the looped clink of glasses and silverware a subtle ostinato.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024