How to Use chink in a Sentence

chink

noun
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  • The slightest crack in the door, the slightest chink in the armor.
    — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Or when a stranger from the Internet emailed me to call me a chink.
    — Kristin Wong, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The chink the armor is the pitching staff at least numbers-wise.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • This kind of heat wave is bringing up all the chinks in the infrastructure.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But there was one chink in his order and that was concerning the wearing of masks.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The only chink in his armor is the safety and the protection of his daughter.
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 28 June 2021
  • But more than ever before, there are chinks in the armor of the superhero movie.
    — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • My mode of behaving was to never show a chink in my armor.
    — Heather Landy, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Not even his defenders dropping like flies from the start of training camp until now has been enough to reveal a chink in his armor.
    — cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • And just as her regimen starts to take a dangerous toll on her health, Edina feels a connection that puts a chink in her armor of reserve.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Did some climate scientists get a chink in their reputations after the batch of East Anglia emails were released?
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2011
  • Yet even a 12-point win would mark a massive departure from where polling has estimated the race to be, potentially putting a chink in Trump's armor and putting wind in the sails of his rivals.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • This allowed a chink in the official secrecy around what was happening on Nauru.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Every single part of Tesla was firing on all cylinders, with only one minor chink spotted in its armor.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Wynonna may come off as the ultimate super trouper, but the documentary reveals chinks in that armor along the way, or at least moments where the singer plainly owns up to not yet having come to terms with her mother’s death.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
  • McGregor makes for a compelling punching bag, at first showing small but acute chinks in temperament until it all unspools at once in unattractive, soul-baring fashion.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But that prevarication becomes a chink in the armor for motivated skeptics to jam their crowbars into.
    — Amit Katwala, Wired, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Although scientists don’t know how to best combat Verroa mites, studies like this one give scientists a deeper understanding of their tactics, which could someday reveal a chink in their armor.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2015
  • Mechanical systems can be hijacked by a malicious actor who finds chinks in their digital armor.
    — Erica Lonergan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Albrecht’s clock ambiguity and Smolin’s critiques of string theory expose chinks in the armor of reductionism.
    — Adam Frank, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Langham’s Blissful Beds, produced by Swedish mattress masters Duxiana, combined with solid soundproofing and electronic blinds that black out every chink of light guarantee a good night’s sleep.
    — Lee Cobaj, Robb Report, 29 May 2023
  • Nonetheless, attention does seem to be a 'chink in the armor' of the otherwise 'impenetrable' perceptual module.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
  • Mansfield had, years earlier in a famous case, ruled that slavery was not supported by common law in England, providing an early chink in slavery’s legitimacy.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 June 2020
  • The slightest crack in the door, the slightest chink in the armor.
    — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Or when a stranger from the Internet emailed me to call me a chink.
    — Kristin Wong, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The chink the armor is the pitching staff at least numbers-wise.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • This kind of heat wave is bringing up all the chinks in the infrastructure.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But there was one chink in his order and that was concerning the wearing of masks.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The only chink in his armor is the safety and the protection of his daughter.
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 28 June 2021
  • But more than ever before, there are chinks in the armor of the superhero movie.
    — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023

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