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Example sentences for "chink"

Lexicographically close words:
chine; chinensis; chines; chinesische; chiney; chinkapin; chinkapins; chinked; chinking; chinks
  1. You oughter seen that Chink talking Mongolian to a machine gun, and, believe me, he sure made it understand him.

  2. We are in the first line now and it's up to you and me and the Chink and the rest of us to keep the Fritzes out of Amiens.

  3. Perhaps some day she would know, but sufficient unto this were its quiet languors and the breath of summer air drifting in at a chink in her aunt's window from the fields towards the hills.

  4. Mick hummed quietly the song about Macarthy, spitting through a chink in the window between the verses.

  5. And he looked through a chink in the bower, and saw the stars in the sky; and he saw one there brighter than the rest, and he began to say: Here they sing.

  6. SHAWN -- [opening the door a chink and putting in his head, in a small voice.

  7. He was an obdurate, unyielding man, and, after days of negotiation, would finally listen to nothing but the chink of the gold that was due to him.

  8. Not a bit of use was there to scan the blue chink of sky.

  9. He would not give in to those imps of discouragement within, but bravely kept his eyes on that chink of sky shining through the trees.

  10. Chink dodged behind the board-pile in the back yard, an' laid down.

  11. Up en down dey had it, twel fus news you know Brer Tarrypin say he got a fifty-dollar bill in de chink er de chimbly at home, en dat bill done tole 'im dat he could beat Brer Rabbit in a fa'r race.

  12. And yet that Chink had the innocentest face in Utah; he might ha' stood for a picture of Adam before Eve cast a shadder on his manly brow.

  13. She was shabby and not very clean, and she had been crying so much that you could hardly see, through the narrow chink between her swollen lids, how very blue her eyes were.

  14. But that doubt was set at rest by the Psammead itself; for almost before the door was open it sprang through the chink of it into Anthea's arms, shivering and hunching up its fur.

  15. She has outlived all human friendships or affections, and exists only for the chink of the gold as it jingles on the gaming table.

  16. Is't ambition that fills up each chink in my heart, Nor allows any softer sensation a part?

  17. He glided his hand towards the window-frame in the hope that he might find a chink between curtain and wall through which he might risk a peep into the room.

  18. T'ink what a lot of fun we could have had with de chink we lost!

  19. Youse swiped some chink offen me, Mike, an' I want it.

  20. Oh, I sell papes, too, when I got de chink t' buy 'em.

  21. The little struggle had brought a flame to her eye that grew large and lambent; where her lower neck showed in a chink of her kerchief-souffle it throbbed and glowed.

  22. They came about her like beggars who have heard a chink of gold, and she showed them a purse that seemed to be empty.

  23. People had come round her like beggars who have heard the chink of gold and she had showed them an empty purse.

  24. The chink of the picks was still, and the cries of the workmen.

  25. But Mary had not a notion how Beatrice could act; she only saw that Ralph was the one chink in her mother's armour, and she left it to this girl who had been so adroit up to the present, to find how to pierce it.

  26. Therefore there is not any doubt to clear When I shall write the brief word presently And chink the hand-bell, which I pause to do.

  27. On the night between the last day of winter and the first of spring, every chink and cranny had been ransacked, except within the precincts of the kitchen.

  28. What seemed most to the purpose was a rusty key, which had been thrust into a chink of the wall, with a wooden label appended to the handle, bearing the initials, P.

  29. Bring that copper-colored chink in here, if you'll be so good," directed Dave.

  30. You'd better let the chink go, just to save one of our class.

  31. A small bare cell, into which the light enters through a high chink in the wall.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chink" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.