chink

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The big day was over, and the old cock-pheasant was alone with the melancholy song of a single robin, and a chaffinch calling "Chink!"

From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry

Poor little Bob! had he but tapped at the door of Man with his farewell "Chink," someone could have let him see a map of his journey.

From Bird Stories by Sim, Robert J.

And very soon it was clear that in spite of his magnificent bounds and whoops of glory, Chink was losing ground.

From Wild Animals at Home by Seton, Ernest Thompson

If I do say it, I know the salmon business from gill net and purse seine to the Iron Chink and bank advances on the season's pack.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

Triumphant Star! some Pity shew On Coblers militant below, Whom roguish Boys in stormy Nights Torment, by pissing out their Lights; Or thro' a Chink convey their Smoke; Inclos'd Artificers to choke.

From Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Swift, Jonathan