clink
Example Sentences
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Just the clink of glasses and the shuffle of a waiter’s shoes.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
If you’re quiet, you’ll hear the wind roll across the valley, or maybe the bell-like clink of a sage sparrow in a nearby bush.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
Or maybe the appetizers are the whole of it, a nice chance to clink glasses with the neighbors or some old friends passing through town.
From Washington Times • Nov. 30, 2023
When the judge sent him off to the clink, Puck’s Teddy Schleifer reported, his mother cried in the courtroom.
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2023
Barrow-wights walked in the hollow places with a clink of rings on cold fingers, and gold chains in the wind.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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