chink

Example Sentences

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“Who remembers the winds of January whistling in through the chinks in them pine logs?”

From Literature

Even still, you felt that at some point they'd make a breakthrough, at some point they'd find a chink and somebody would do something that resembled a clinical piece of play.

From BBC

“I don’t know how far down. But we’ve seen it from the shore. There are chinks and cracks and messy nests.”

From Literature

"They've let three lads out on similar appeals at similar ages, and we think that these five men might be able to fit into those chinks, and they might broaden them," she said.

From BBC

It was a night in which teams in the powerful Trinity League showed a chink in their armor.

From Los Angeles Times