The walls present a specimen of how Nature packs the stone, crowding huge masses, as it were, into chinks and fissures, and here we see it in the perpendicular or horizontal layers, as Nature laid it.
Didn't I hear youse chewin' de rag wit de Chinks wen I hit de dump over dere?
He thinks that the chinks in our walls are absolutely a provision of Nature, since, he says, we would certainly be choked with smoke if there were none.
The Saint says he has invited them to breakfast with us, on the first of April next, by which time he expects that the chinks will have gaped wide enough to permit of the passage of cattle.
In one of these the cook tried to make a fire with the last remnants of charcoal; we huddled in another to avoid, if we could, the blast which rushed across the broken doorways and whistled through the chinks of the rough stone walls.
At all events, grass grows on the tops of the shattered pillars, and weeds and flowers root themselves in the chinks of the massive arches and fronts of temples, as if this were the thousandth summer since their winged seeds alighted there.
Gradually the smoke moved through the chinks and apertures in the walls, and the moon illuminated it like a mist.
The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown, which had not seen the light for twenty years, saving and excepting such truant rays as had stolen through the chinks in the box in which it had been laid by, during the whole time.
There are probably a score or more of Chinks around this old shack.
Sandy, who had been listening in silence to the explanations which had been made, now asked: "How many Chinks are there out there?
I don't know but I'd take a chance on getting injured myself in order to see these Chinks sailing into the sky.
We're in trouble enough now, without bringing the Chinks down on us.
I am wondering now why the American, or Englishman, or Frenchman, whatever he is, didn't hire some of the Chinks to do this work of laying the explosion.
We thought you were on the road to Peking until we heard some of the Chinks talking, not long after daybreak, then we thought you might be in trouble.
What's the use of all that if the Chinks sit out there like blooming cigar-store images and never give a hint as to where we are?
You wait a minute," Jack gritted out, "and I'll see if the Chinks will stand quiet while I beat their accomplice up!
These Chinks like Americans about as much as brook trout love the desert.
I don't know what this means, but there are Chinks all around this house.
If you'll manage to keep the Chinks off me I'll try.
I just want to know why our stopping here excited the Chinks who were watching us.
The tattered remains of a checked curtain were drawn round the bed's head, to exclude the wind, which however made its way into the comfortless room through the numerous chinks in the door, and blew it to and fro every instant.
The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown which had not seen the light for twenty years, saving and excepting such truant rays as had stolen through the chinks in the box in which it had been laid by, during the whole time.
In about half an hour the little thin beams through the chinks of her door disappeared, and then I knew that she had gone to bed.
The cocoons are made up on the surface or in the chinks of the bark, and may be searched for, all through the winter and early spring.
The moth is out in July and August and in its rugged haunts, may be disturbed from among the loose rubble, and from chinks in the rocks; but as they come freely to sugared herbage, captives in this way would probably be more numerous.
It feeds on oak, and may be found from July to September; stated to hide by day in the chinks of the bark.
The eggs of this species are laid in August in the chinks of bark on tree trunks, and do not hatch until the spring.
Most kinds change to the chrysalis state underground, but some pupate among leaves or in chinks of tree bark, etc.
It feeds in the spring and until June on oak leaves, and often rests by day on the trunks, in the chinks of the bark.
It had no window, but, upon moving the dried grass aside, they could peep through the chinks in the floor of logs.
Here Buck paused before a shop whose windows were closed, but rays of light were streaming through chinks in the shutters.
The squall had spent itself, and a peep through the chinks of the door showed that the moon would quickly be in evidence again.
She would not abandon hope till daylight crept through the chinks of the hut.
There was not a sound from the next house, nor could she even see a single gleam of light from the chinks in the shutters.
But the darkness was still intense on this side, there was no tell-tale light in the chinks of the shutters, and she was forced, after watching for several moments, to conclude that nothing was amiss in this region.
The dust came in in clouds, and they were obliged to shut the windows, but it still came in through chinks and settled all over them and choked them, and even lay in the delicate details of Ingeborg's nose.
We climbed a stairway, dark and dangerous, till at length we reached the wretched garret through whose open chinks the snow drifted in upon the floor.
Light streamed through the chinks of the door to the apartment--the door itself opened.
A few bullets came straight in at the windows to pat into the walls; a few others ticked and splintered the edges of the windows; and most of them broke through the clay chinks between the logs.
The chinks between the walls had not been filled with adobe clay, and he could see out on three sides.
Suddenly he was startled by seeing a light shining through the chinks of a building.
These logs were placed one above the other, and the chinks between were closed up with mortar made of clay and water.
Viola heard the horse's tread and, looking between two logs from which the chinks had fallen, saw her young friend.
If you find they are Chinks hold up two fingers and get back as fast as you can.
Here they ran into a bunch of Chinksjust coming out of the main club room.
Is there any end to the mysteries with which these Chinks like to surround themselves?
Still less agreeable might appear the fierce miaulling of the red puma, and the howl of the gaunt wolf; but not so to the ears of the awakened hunter, who, through the chinks of his lone cabin, listens to such sounds with a savage joy.
The chinks between the logs are open all round the hut--so, too, the interstices between the hewn planks of the door.
I was not aware of this when I selected this place as my berth, but I found it out on the first night, the light of the candle shining through the chinks into the darkness by which I was surrounded outside.
And through the chinks of the rotting roof, gaps were covered with snow, fell by hundred thousands the little glittering snow-stars and played in the moon-beams, but they gave no light or warmth either.
Meanwhile all the other plants are working while my Chinks are playing fan-tan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chinks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
