Example Sentences

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Clinking glasses all around was Ryyan Alshebl, a lanky, bearded 29-year-old from Syria.

From New York Times • May 28, 2023

Clinking our glasses together, we toasted our good fortune.

From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2014

Clinking glasses with him, Beatrice responded: "Success to abstinence!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Clinking plates and the sound of steaming milk fill the lull.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Clinking money and noisy arguing made the scene all the more like a public market.

From Men Called Him Master by Smith, Elwyn A. (Elwyn Allen)