Example Sentences

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She adds: "Even as the band strikes up and the champagne glasses are clinking, make no mistake that there are deals being made amongst all those gowns and tuxedos."

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2022

“Whaddup, Pat?” the guy with the sculptural jaw behind the counter says, and soon enough ginger-and-cayenne wellness shots are clinking all around.

From Forbes • Sep. 5, 2013

Sing another dirge in wailing, For another vessel sailing With the shadow-ships at sea; Shadow-ships for ever sinking — Shadow-ships whose pumps are clinking, And whose thirsty holds are drinking Pledges to Eternity.

From In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses by Lawson, Henry

Glasses are clinking, chairs and tables moving, and altogether there is a discordant tumult well calculated to bewilder the coolest kind of a head.

From Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by Howe, William F.

Locks, bolts, and bars, and chains, are clinking.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various