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Tossed rings will clink and fall between bottles; guns will limply squirt water into the mouths of clowns; mushy softballs will knock over nothing.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2023

"Come," she said, "we will clink glasses, and drink to the welfare of the good Hartwich, who has made us rich!"

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

I will clink the beaded edge Of the beaker, while I pledge Safety over surf and sedge, Foaming round the sunken ledge, In the track of all the loved ones we remember.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various