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The phrase "a chink through which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small opening or gap that allows something to pass through, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "There was a chink through which the light filtered into the dark room."
Alternatives: "a gap through which" or "an opening through which".
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Roth's 1997 novel depicts a moderate, amicable, and reasonable man assaulted by the forces of history: the all-American hero Swede Levov, whose shining moral confidence betrays not a chink through which the dark or terrible might penetrate.
And by linking gravitational waves with inflation it provides a chink through which physicists can peer to try to solve one of their field's biggest mysteries: why general relativity, which has passed every test applied to it, cannot be reconciled with quantum theory, which has also passed every test applied to it.Quantum theory is the theory of small things.
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His head isn't recognisably human but a lopsided square, with an oblong chink through which we glimpse a snatch of blue and white in the heavens above.
He always leaves himself a chink of light, which is enough for the so-called 'net-roots', the liberal bloggers whose darling he has become.
Since her illness began, at least in the intervals when she felt well enough to read, she had immersed herself in books almost fanatically, trying not to leave open any chink in her consciousness through which she could be waylaid by awareness of her body or by fear or disgust.
Levitas, like "Smith," hopes to find a chink in the system which would allow Ben Bass, the founder of the Strand, to put up a valuable book on the 97 cents counter.
The more one knows about his life the clearer it is that in many ways he was maddening, and there are tiny chinks in the book through which this can be glimpsed; but the miracle is that in War and Peace his genius prevailed over his human failings.
The important thing was, because he stood out, there was still a chink in the UK establishment which could look people in the face afterwards.
They can be heard a long way off, because of a chink, chink, chinking sound they make, like stones rubbing together under water.
Every so often a flying rock would find a chink to get through, and someone would crumple.
England scrum just outside their 22, little carry by Sarah Hunter, two long passes to the right, and Waterman has what she wants, which is a chink of space.
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