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How to pronounce “clink”
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Pronunciation guide for clink
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of clink with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The US Can Move past Immigration Prisons – and towards Justice
the steel door is closed shut with the clink of confinement.
- Definition summary
- (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce clink
The US Can Move past Immigration Prisons – and towards Justice

the steel door is closed shut with the clink of confinement.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “clink”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
- Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
- [Verb]
- (ambitransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
- (humorous, dated) To rhyme.
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