(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.
Prison
Definition:
(n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
(n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
(v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
(v. t.) To bind (together); to enchain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(2) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(3) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
(4) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(5) This is Selim’s second time in prison,” says Suleiman.
(6) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
(7) Thirteen per cent were in prison and 12% were resident in a therapeutic community.
(8) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(10) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(11) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
(12) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(13) A lfred Ekpenyong knows first hand how tough it can be to find a secure foothold in mainstream society after leaving prison.
(14) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
(15) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(16) Espinosa wrote that time has now come, with 15 of his group of prisoners having been released, six executed, and American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller killed in a bombing of Isis positions last month.
(17) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(18) In the end, prisons are all about wasting human life and will always be places that take things away.
(19) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
(20) Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released on Friday from an Alabama prison.