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chink

How to use chink in a sentence

In letting one of the company out she incautiously stood looking through the open chink into the dark passage.

I found a chink in the wall and beheld the face of the Englishman peering from the small end window.

Mysie dashed the warm tears from her eyes, and looked again through the chink in the shutter.

And whenever at work he happened to spy At chink or crevice a blinking eye, He let the dipper of water fly.

According to Skeat jingle, “a frequentative verb from the base jink,” is allied to chink, and chink is “an imitative word”.

It was the first chink I had seen in the armor of my young Goliath, and I put in my rapier.

The dwarf put his ear to a chink in the door and listened intently.

I saw it plainly, for I peeped in through a chink in the wall.

I opened a small chink of the door to look out, and perceived two ragged men, each leaning on a large club.

It was now nearly calm and in every crack and chink in the snow-bridges beautiful fern-like ice-crystals were seen.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985