How to Use chink in a Sentence

chink

noun
  • That amounts to a chink in the Padres’ armor.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • That’s the missing chink in the armor right now.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The same goes for certain plant smells, the chink of tools on rocks, the smell of woodsmoke.
    — Jane Ciabattari august 19, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The chink the armor is the pitching staff at least numbers-wise.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The slightest crack in the door, the slightest chink in the armor.
    — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 14 Dec. 2023
  • One heel struck the car’s bonnet, leaving a silver chink.
    — ‘pemi Aguda, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • Sometimes a small chink in your camouflage betrays you to a wary tom.
    — Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • But if blithe grandiosity was Stein’s armor, there was a chink in it.
    — Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But more than ever before, there are chinks in the armor of the superhero movie.
    — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • There are chinks in the armor that become more apparent this season.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
  • The veteran torched them for 32 a month prior and sensed the chinks in their armor.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The only chink in his armor is the safety and the protection of his daughter.
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 28 June 2021
  • Does the bazaar allow for chinks in the kind of class barriers that would usually exist?
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • This new data from Consumer Edge may expose a chink in that armor.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • Confidence drained as the hosts’ goals went in, before a chink of light in the closing stages of the first period.
    — Beren Cross, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • But there is a glaring chink in the armor for the Rebels (6-0, 2-0), and that’s its run defense.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The only chink in his armor was Mickey Moniak’s two-out solo homer in the third.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 20 July 2025
  • But after the break, the Americans started to find some chinks in the English armour.
    — Peter Carline, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Parkinson, however, had other ideas after spotting a chink in the Chelsea armour.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mechanical systems can be hijacked by a malicious actor who finds chinks in their digital armor.
    — Erica Lonergan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In this suffocating atmosphere, people were looking for any chink in the wall, any possibility at all of stopping the war.
    — The Dial, 2 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • But that prevarication becomes a chink in the armor for motivated skeptics to jam their crowbars into.
    — Amit Katwala, Wired, 20 Dec. 2021
  • But this recent run has exposed a chink in Arsenal’s psychological armour.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026

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