Sentence examples for of a chink from inspiring English sources

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

"Any suggestion of a chink in the armor of the 'N.Y.P.D. success story' is very threatening.

"The pollsters, when they evaluate every Saturday and Sunday, are going to try and find a little bit of a chink in the armor.

It was a statement of fact, not an expression of constitutional propriety, but was seized on by Tories in search of a chink of dissent.

Not much of a chink of light, admittedly, but stranger things have happened, and we'll be back tomorrow to find out if they do!

Lugano spoke with no irony, no hint of a chink in his belief that Suarez had no case to answer.

Ten years is a long time, and many millions will be looking to the United Nations General Assembly's summit meeting next week to assess progress on the MDGs for a beacon of hope, a chink of light.

It is only the most spectacular example of work by a wide range of researchers who have recently produced superluminal speeds of propagation in various materials, in hopes of finding a chink in Einstein's armor and of using the effect in practical applications like speeding up electrical circuits.

"This situation has sort of put a chink in that armor.

As she listens to this poignant, amusing interpretation of her life of excess, I detect a chink of sadness in her eyes.

But two hours is a long time to fake it and there were snapshot moments of exposure that let a chink of light in.