had clinked
- past perfect of clink.
Example Sentences
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Women across Australia had clinked glasses at her ascension: at last, the mold was smashed.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2013
As far as I could see, none of the officers who came aboard actually inspected the spot where boat and barge had clinked together.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2012
Clad in diplomatic cutaway, silk tie and striped trousers, he had clinked champagne glasses earlier this month with Warren R. Austin, chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, during Austin's Caribbean tour.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You like your room?” she asked; and as she spoke he realized that she had been standing there waiting to hear the sound of his glass as it had clinked on the sink.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Miss Hulda had clinked her glass too hard against Lieutenant Nienkerk's.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
