(v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
(v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
(v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].
(n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the clock struck and glasses clinked, we toasted the new.
(2) His bedside drawer probably opens with the clink that characterises so many similar drawers belonging to gay men, as bottles of poppers nestle among the lube, condoms and a half-read Alan Hollinghurst novel.
(3) It is said that Bach’s lily-livered reluctance to push for a ban stems not only from his own close relationship with Vladimir Putin – those pictures of them clinking champagne glasses like newlyweds or whooping it up with other authoritarian leaders at opening ceremonies in Sochi and Baku threaten to define him – but from his own experiences as an athlete.
(4) London isn’t the best city for hostels ( that accolade goes to Lisbon ) but that’s improving too with Clink , Generator , Wombats and the good ol’ YHA all offering family rooms.
(5) How the way their teeth clink on a mug as they drink their tea can make you hate everything about them, even though they are the very same person you once found so bewitching?
(6) While the two candidates jousted on television, cutlery clinked.
(7) They were boisterous and loving, hugging each other, teasing each other, shouting old stories to roars of laughter, and clinking glasses.
(8) It's an area in which we're expert, having spent a record 74 different stints in the clink, but we never thought our expertise would be brought to bear in pre-match discussion of a semi-final.
(9) "All those fully loaded magazines do not clink, do not move, do not give him away," Henricks said.
(10) He and his colleagues clinked beers, manifestly happy.
(11) From time to time, Syrova's words were punctuated by tinny clinks from the women's handcuffs as they crossed and uncrossed their arms.
(12) Sanders went out of his way to establish his progressive bona fides on issue after issue as a cheering contingent of supporters yelled, hollered and clinked silverware on glasses to indicate their support for his campaign.
(13) Walking through a town centre on a Sunday afternoon or a Monday evening, you would see the coloured chalkboards outside pubs advertising live football and hear the mingled sounds of cheers, clinking glasses and commentary wafting through the air.
(14) While upsetting traditionalists, one-day international cricket now makes the coins clink, attracting large crowds.
(15) The hardest thing for me now is the language,” Dorcas says, shaking her head so her beaded braids clink together.
(16) On Tuesday he turned 91, on Wednesday he broke his personal best in the 400m hurdles, and on Thursday in Copenhagen, he'll be clinking champagne flutes with the secretary general of Nato and the queen of Spain, as they celebrate 60 glorious years of Bilderberg .
(17) Friday's breakthrough was met by a cheer at the company headquarters, but not the clinking of glasses.
(18) But they are miserable and their conversation keeps stalling amid the clink of glass and cutlery.
(19) Morrison refused to answer questions regarding the memorandum of understanding during a 5-minute signing ceremony on Friday, after which he clinked champagne glasses with Cambodian officials .
(20) We clink glasses – he’s drinking Coke, me wine.
Jingle
Definition:
(v. i.) To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
(v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
(v. t.) To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
(n.) A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
(n.) That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
(n.) A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) There isn't a huge amount of production going into this, but even so, there are jingles, and adverts alerting prisoners to support and rehab services.
(2) It can take all of a parent's ingenuity to get though a shopping trip without unwillingly picking up a tin of Barbie spaghetti shapes, a box of cereal with Lightning McQueen smirking from the front, or a bag of fruit chews with a catchy jingle.
(3) There's a scene in Friday Night Dinner when Adam, a jingle writer by trade, gathers the family around a radio to hear his ditty for a car-insurance company.
(4) Now it hosts the headquarters of BBC Scotland and Scottish Television and something called The Hub, which seems to be a honeycomb of "units" and "pods" for people who want to make animated short films and radio advertising jingles.
(5) Another Guangzhou lawyer, Tang Jingling, may also be missing.
(6) You must have known,” Price says – laconic, nasal, one leg casually hitched up on the bench, endlessly jingling coins in his pocket – “that to give a senior public figure an arrest warning could lead to a complaint direct to the commissioner’s office.” Do you not see how important Mr Mitchell is?
(7) It's 6.30pm and I'm on the sofa, watching an overgrown blue woolly person with a red security blanket and a bell in his foot, who is squeaking and jingling through a sun-dappled wood in the company of a large, excitable dolly - her hair stands on end when she's especially thrilled - who says, 'Ooh!
(8) In jingle thinking the subjects internally jumped every second word in a nine-word circular jingle.
(9) The infamy did not come from the fact that the company was using a catchy jingle to get people addicted to carcinogens.
(10) Jingle shells … Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench and a tortoise star in the BBC adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot.
(11) Nonetheless there is more than a jingling ring of truth to his argument.
(12) The prisoner's final words as he was put to death by a massive overdose of pentobarbital, obtained from an unnamed Oklahoma compounding pharmacy, were: “I feel my whole body burning.” The Apothecary Shoppe makes up – or compounds – medication customised to individual customers under the jingle “the most important thing we did today was fill your prescription”.
(13) There are breast shampoo dispensers and a holiday gag gift you can’t unsee called Jingle Jugs .
(14) Other finds include an amber charm in the shape of a gladiator's helmet, which may have been a good luck charm for an actual gladiator; a horse harness ornament combining two lucky symbols, a fist and a phallus, plus clappers to make a jingling sound as the horse moved; and a set of fine-quality pewter bowls and cups, which were deliberately thrown into a deep well.
(15) If you want to get anywhere in life, jingle the coins.
(16) The party’s name – which echoes not just Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan, but also a TV jingle for Spain’s European and World Cup-winning football team – came during a car journey a few months after the forming of the initial pact between Iglesias and Urbán.
(17) 'Sometimes the script is wrong, and Andy has to write on the hoof, sitting in front of the screen, and he makes up whole little jingles ... it all comes out.
(18) The digital sky with clouds that curdle before your eyes is unsettling and there’s a sitcom-like jingle playing on a tortuous loop.
(19) Inspired by Iona and Peter Opie's classic studies of the playground in the 1950s , which had documented the incorporation of advertising jingles and TV theme tunes into clapping and singing games, the researchers discovered children's games based on dance routines from Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor .
(20) To mark the new programme, which goes out between 11am and 1pm, there are some jazzy, slinky jingles and a revised acronym for the Togs.