What is "clink"

Usage examples of "clink".

The chaffinches clinked in the apple trees and the bees droned round the berberis bushes, and the waning sunlight slanted pleasantly across the garden plots, but between the neighbour households had sprung up a barrier of hate, permeating and permanent.

From within his buffcoat he withdrew a velvet purse that clinked musically as he bounced it in his palm.

Maldari scuttled across the open space and went inside, where the fog was replaced with an even thicker smoke, and the creaking of the wind in the ghostly starships was buried by the clink of copperware, multiple voices, and electronic noise.

Strolling musicians hired for the evening, harpists and soft clinking cymbalists, performed just as at any party at any time in history.

Three-piece suiters ate next to blue-collar workers, their chatter and clinking dinnerware creating a din.

She stayed with him as they threaded their way past white-coated chefs in tall white hats rushing to and fro between stoves, ovens and countertops, dinnerware and pots clinking and clanging.

There was silence again now, except for the soft shuffle of feet moving on the drillship deck immediately below, a voice calling a whispered order, a clink of metal as a gun muzzle touched some steel part of the superstructure.

Dangling from one gauntleted hand, a fat leather purse clinked as he set it on the table alongside two already there.

They droned on intermittently for an hour, punctuated by soft laughter and the clink of tin plates, while Harris lay rigid and cramped under his sheet.

It dangles, now, on a piece of green string: her slender index finger, reduced to bare bones but still undeniably elegant, the three phalanges from tip to the base knuckle, clinking against the little conch shells and miniature bivalve fans and trumpet shells and tiny spirals similar to the whorled homes of snails.

Glitter and gaiety abounded as the sound of laughter, clinking iced drinks, and the music of a dance band reigned supreme at the Mardi Gras Ball, one of several being held that night.

Working gyms in the city were meatier, more burly, with dim overhead lights, chalk dust, labouring fans, and metal everywhere: clanking Nautilus, ringing free weights, clinking dog tags.

She picked up her martini and took a long drink, then set it down without so much as a tiny clink.

When he was certain neither the clerk nor the playmaker were returning, he came around his table on the balls of his feet and scooped up the clinking pouch that Jonson had left behind.

The tent itself seemed sleepily to breathe, like a living creature, for the little random breezes that wafted through it made the canvas whisper, and the ropes and chandelier and bail ring rustled and creaked and clinked.