chink

Example Sentences

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It was a night in which teams in the powerful Trinity League showed a chink in their armor.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025

McLaren's one chink of light in the race was the pit stops.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025

This lack of response seems to be a chink in the body's armor that Mtb exploits to such devastating effect.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

“I looked over at Becky, who, throughout years of these unwarranted attacks, hadn’t shown even the slightest chink in her armor,” said Heather Jackson in a May 15 op-ed for Harper’s Bazaar.

From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2023

Zoe yelled, and a volley of silver arrows sprouted from the armpit chink in Atlas’s armor.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan