clinking
Example Sentences
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Clinking glasses all around was Ryyan Alshebl, a lanky, bearded 29-year-old from Syria.
From New York Times • May 28, 2023
Clinking our glasses together, we toasted our good fortune.
From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2014
Clinking glasses with him, Beatrice responded: "Success to abstinence!"
From Time Magazine Archive
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Clinking plates and the sound of steaming milk fill the lull.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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Clinking his keys, the clerk walked away to his home, an ivy-covered cottage not a stone's-throw off; the clergyman lingered in the churchyard, reading the memorials on the tombstones.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.