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Another word for clink

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Noun

  1. A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention

    See also:

    free

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Another word for clink

Noun
  1. See also:

    noise

Verb
  1. See also:

    sound

    ring

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • I could hear a glass clink and there was a pause.

  • The only sound was the muffled sound of hooves in the sand and the occasional clink of a harness.

  • Anyhow, his latest stint in the clink involves…yep, you guessed it, driving under the influence.

  • Airport police arrived and arrested West and Crowley and they were promptly hauled off to the clink.

  • Could you hear the gulls, the clink of the cubes and the waves lapping the shore?

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