How to Use kink in a Sentence

kink

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• Hart said the game helped work out some of the kinks in the new lineup.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• The Browns hope so and will use the preseason to work out the kinks.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
• That said, a single kink in the chain can throw the whole thing off.
  — Fatima Ali, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2022
• Read on and trim coils, kinks, waves, and curls the right way, while at home.
  — Akili King, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023
• Woods hits a straight, 290-yard drive, avoiding the bunkers to the left at the kink of the fairway.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2020
• There will be plenty of time to iron out the kinks that come from those changes.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• So Hill will conceivably have more time to work out the kinks in the first two weeks of the year.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• As with all startups and all AI, there are kinks to work out.
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
• Like any new kink, start small, slow, and choose a safeword.
  — Angie Jones, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2022
• Testers found that the hose did kink a bit, but the kinks straightened out quickly.
  — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
• The room smelled of wet and bodies and kink and adoration.
  — Hayley Folk, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2022
• There will be more of us to come, more kink hikers out for our own blood.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022
• The final corner is a subtle kink on the front straight.
  — Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
• This character wants to just get their rocks off and get their kink on.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
• Buolamwini tried not to think much of it, assumed the kinks would be worked out.
  — Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
• However, there are still many kinks to iron out for the scaling-up process.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2022
• Another common kink, in most horror and in my faves, is the shot from the bad guy’s point of view.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2020
• The massage pillow will work on your muscles and knead out those kinks.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• In years past, most of the kinks in the transportation system have been worked out within two weeks.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2023
• Her Beatrice is rich, spoiled and haughty, but has a weird love for Burt (heightened by his scars in a weird kink).
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
• The ride is short, and its purpose is simply to work out the kinks before the real trip begins.
  — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 24 Feb. 2023
• The body itself is less chunky than the concept's, but the upwards kink on the window line has carried over.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2022
• But this may only be temporary while the kinks get worked out.
  — Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
• There was a quavering kink at play that even a kid could detect.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• There’s a kink in the jet stream that is moving over the region this afternoon and offshore tonight.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• Get everything set up one day ahead for a practice run to work out any kinks.
  — William Neff, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• This will give the company more time to iron out some of the integration kinks.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
• This must be part of the reason why the terminology of kink dates so fast.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
• With it being entirely livestreamed this year, were there any kinks with that?
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 22 June 2023
• The kinks that were suppressed in our courtship were far from our original bargain.
  — Erika Wasser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023

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kink

2 of 2 verb

• The hose was sturdy, with a great grip, and did not kink at all.
  — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
• Testers found that the hose did kink a bit, but the kinks straightened out quickly.
  — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2022
• In a lot of places, the stems actually snapped or kinked over.
  — Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
• This hose isn't going to break, fray, kink or get tangled up.
  — Christine Persaud, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2021
• This is visible in the top row of photos below, where the ring (the dark band) can be seen to kink inward.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 May 2020
• Kinks Virtually all hoses will kink, even the kink-proof kind.
  — Kate Morgan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• The hose also felt extremely durable, and didn’t kink a lot, whether empty or full.
  — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
• Pinch the horizontal wire with a pair of linesman pliers, then rotate your hand to kink the wire tight.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2021
• Try this weeding tool that gets in between paver crevices or the Flexzilla garden hose that promises not to kink.
  — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2022
• Both hydrogen atoms occupy the same side of the double bond, forcing the molecule to kink at the bond.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2014
• From minimal to full-on bondage, leather harnesses are an easy way to kink up any outfit, even workwear.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2022
• Many a caver has died from flash floods, or worse, wedged into an unseen drop or kink, their bodies never to be recovered.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2023
• Like many contemporary movies, this one kinks up its timeline.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2017
• The inspectors also faulted the home for allowing an oxygen tube to kink while the resident used it.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2020
• From its lightweight design to durability, this hose gets the job done without kinking up.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023
• According to the automaker, a frozen door latch or a bent or kinked actuation cable may result in a door that will not open or will not close.
  — William Thornton, AL.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Badly fitting standard stents can kink and bend, leading to complications such as the growth of new tissue and tissue death, the Clinic said.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2020
• More than 400 turns and corners kink the raceway, according to Sports Illustrated, making the contest among the most difficult high-speed races on earth — and one of the most deadly.
  — Kyle Swenson, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
• And while being kinky still comes with social stigmas, Stephanie*, a 25-year-old woman involved in the New York City kink scene, says kinks are increasingly viewed as mainstream.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 1 Nov. 2017
• The emergence of gay people into the mainstream and, more to the point, the ubiquity of internet pornography, have lifted Mapplethorpe’s kinks out of the shadows.
  — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 25 July 2019
• Consider 3103 Spenard Road, where that crooked road begins to kink its way toward Minnesota Drive.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2021
• The automaker will add water shields to side-door latches to remedy the issue, which can occur when the latches are frozen or when the actuation cables get bent or kinked.
  — David Muller, Car and Driver, 18 Oct. 2017
• Wires may sag and cause operating issues, and tracks can expand and potentially kink.
  — oregonlive, 30 July 2021
• A long time ago in a star cluster far, far away … two curiously massive black holes collided and became one, unleashing a torrent of energy that kinked the fabric of space-time itself.
  — National Geographic, 1 June 2017
• Also give some thought to replacing copper tubing which often kinks and detaches too easily.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2016
• In addition to having high-end goodies, the company is woman-owned and has a bunch of awesomely feminist, frequently kink-friendly mantras all over their site and on their product descriptions.
  — Glamour, 3 Oct. 2017
• Other details, such as the angular headlights and tortuously kinked sheetmetal, may appeal to some buyers.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 10 July 2017
• Other details, such as the angular headlights and tortuously kinked sheetmetal, may appeal to some buyers.
  — Michael Simari, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2018
• Not only were their numbers dismal, but almost all of the male panthers showed signs of inbreeding depression, including undescended testicles, kinked tails and low sperm counts.
  — Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
• Not only were their numbers dismal, but almost all of the male panthers showed signs of inbreeding depression, including undescended testicles, kinked tails and low sperm counts.
  — Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017

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