Sentence examples for chink between from inspiring English sources

On a summer morning, in the legendary Russia of my boyhood, my first glance upon awakening was for the chink between the shutters.

For countries and individuals it is the unruliness of history, politics and personality that opens the chink between what they say about themselves and what they are.

Mr. Gregor peered through the chinks between the bare floorboards.

The rest of the barn will remain untouched, with light still falling through the chinks between the boards.

As Christopher's eyes adjusted to the dark, he saw that each window — there were three — was haloed in a corona of light, the city's nighttime glow seeping in through the narrow chinks between glass and shade.

The author crams into the chinks between his reconstructions an immense amount of fact -- endless lists, many of them involving unpleasantnesses (Hanson has a macabre fascination for old London's dirt, disease, degradation and depravity) -- the better to give the illusion of verisimilitude.

English gardeners, who have planted in the little chinks between bricks and paving stones for years, know that a terrace or path broken up by plants can give even the grandest site a romantically wild appearance that is neither too buttoned-up nor trying too hard to be perfect.

This reminds me of the vast spectrum of collaborative modus operandi in the comics world, ranging from Alan Moore's habit of writing several pages of directive script for each page ("moss growing in the chinks between the bricks and a slight deposit of soot and grime adhering to the brickwork", etc) and Stan Lee's vague Marvel Method (no typescript, just a chat).

The only chink of disagreement between the other reviewers concerns whether the play is "bang on the money" as Charles Spencer contends in the Telegraph, or if, in fact, it is "right on the button" in the words of Michael Billington.

They can be heard a long way off, because of a chink, chink, chinking sound they make, like stones rubbing together under water.

Chink the cracks between the logs.