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chink - use in sentences
Object
- glass: We are surrounded by warmth, laughter and chinking glasses.
Converse of object
- find: Scoring a hit with a +3 finds a chink in the armor.
- see: Contact us if you think you see a chink of light for a steady job in this for you - or a near relative.
- spot: I could spot the chinks by what wasn't said, or faltered.
- show: Ladder 49 would have been so much more interesting if it had dared to show a chink or two in Jack's armor.
- have: The extension is lighter and, tho still introspective, has friendly chinks in its armor.
Adjective modifier
- tiny: It was the tiny chink in the armor through which the giant could be pierced.
- small: They could not get out, because Penaumbe had closed the window and the door, and had stopped up even the smallest chinks.
- first: The first chinks in Leeds United's armor are turning into worrying holes.
- little: Open up little chinks in the illusion of what the world is.
- only: The only chink of light comes from the new 24 hour coach service between London and Birmingham operated by National Express.
- few: This said there were a few chinks of light in the figures to signify some better news.
Possessives
- sound: But the main thing I remember is the ' chink, chink, chink ' sound as everyone joined in bashing down the wall.
Preposition: in
- armor: In fact to ensure there were no chinks in the armor I read the book, the best man's checklist.
- wall: No, it is rather like a single ray of the sun passing through a chink in a wall.
- armor: Scoring a hit with a +3 finds a chink in the armor.
Preposition: of
- light: The holes where there were chinks of light coming through the trees started to become like gun shots.
- glass: Suddenly we could hear voices, a sort of loud murmur with laughter, chatter, footsteps and the chink of glasses.
- hope: Does that give Leigh a chink of hope that they too could pull off the shock of the season?
- daylight: It was a chink of daylight during a dark time.
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