What is "clinking"

Usage examples of "clinking".

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.

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.

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.

He remembered the tents pitched over the concrete foundations, the standing in line for chow with mess kits in the mud, he remembered the waiting on the ready line in the fleece padded shooting jackets made from old CKC blouses, the smell of burnt cordite and the ringing ears and the carbon sight blackeners that smudged up everything and the two or three privately owned BE slopes of the top notch shooters, he remembered all of it, the heavy clinking dull glittering unexpended cartridges in the hand, the long deadly streamline disappearing of a cartridge slipped into the chamber with the thumb when you were firing singles, the swinging white spot marking off the bulls and the big red flag rising from the pits three hundred yards away.

By his best calculation he had come twenty miles - through heat and thirst, across lakes of dust and ancient seas of ash, down spiraling fumaroles and over fields of clinking metallic lava.

Simkin announced, and together they tottered forward into the fiery illusions, the champagne glasses clinking merrily along behind.

All the workers, from the sweeps to the stableboys to the milkmaids to the cheese-makers and so on, sat and feasted together, clinking their brass cups in toasts, tossing bones to the dogs, laughing and jesting in good fellowship.

That summer remains a fuzzy dot of sunburned necks, beer bottles clinking in the Datsun's trunk, huckleberry picking with Wendy and Pam, and beachside bonfires.

Nurse rustlings, glass clinkings, paper cracklings, they all happened far away in some other world.

Bottles were passed they heard the clinkings but the scene had lost the aspect of a gin-house or a sailors' drinking den.

The younger wizard raised his head from clinkings and uncorkings and gurglings, looking hurt.