How to Use plink in a Sentence
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Then there are a few plinking synths, but in the end this is just about the lyrics.
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Raisa Bruner,
Time,
25 Oct. 2019
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The hours spent plinking with such a toy can instill a love of archery that lasts a lifetime.
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The Editors,
Outdoor Life,
20 Nov. 2019
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Water was dripping from a crack in the roof to a bucket below, plinking all night long.
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Jason Daley,
Smithsonian,
25 June 2018
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Knots of golfers in colorful shirts were plinking balls in all directions.
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Los Angeles Times,
17 Oct. 2019
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These little guns are effective and tons of fun for squirrels and bunnies, on the skeet field, or for just plinking around.
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Phil Bourjaily,
Field & Stream,
18 Sep. 2019
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Sam humors him, reluctantly plinking out a tune on her keyboard.
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Barbara Vandenburgh,
azcentral,
14 June 2018
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Agarwal also found that soapy water prevents the air bubble from oscillating well enough for a droplet to plink.
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Sarah Gibbens,
National Geographic,
22 June 2018
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On the passage along the golden figure’s backside, Thais filed by plinking coins into a row of metal bowls, creating a musical drizzle.
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New York Times,
10 Apr. 2018
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Iraq had plenty of small arms and ammunition, which could kill Americans but would often plink harmlessly off their armored vehicles.
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Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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In the dining room, a massive sculpture by Sinisa Kukec resembles two golden raindrops plinking into puddles.
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Brett Sokol,
New York Times,
8 May 2018
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The rhythmic alt-R&B track features similarly summery instrumentals, plinking beats and bright synths to relay an almost playful vibe.
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Tamar Herman,
Billboard,
9 Mar. 2018
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Fielding a request to do a spontaneous piece, Wheaton starts with an up-tempo, plinking line of notes, adds a brisk allegro melody that plays in syncopation against it, and finally pipes in a series of cascading arpeggios.
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Rand Richards Cooper,
courant.com,
15 Nov. 2019
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With a series of plinks, the stomach contents slumped out onto the metal sieve below.
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Rachel Becker,
The Mercury News,
3 Aug. 2019
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Researchers have also spent the last century or so trying to figure out how the plink sound is produced.
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Jason Daley,
Smithsonian,
25 June 2018
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The recognizable plink occurs only when a water droplet lands in water; a drop landing on a dry, wooden surface leaves only a dull thud.
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Sarah Gibbens,
National Geographic,
22 June 2018
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The pleasant plink of the record falling into place, a click to begin the next tale of someone surviving a wretched heartbreak, and the hand disappeared.
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Hua Hsu,
The New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2020
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The first, which is built around Malik’s velvet vocals, a heartrending melody and spare, sonar-plink sonics builds -- and improves -- on his debut album’s sound.
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Jonathan Ringen,
Billboard,
2 Nov. 2017
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In 2017, Agarwal took the question to an undergraduate lab at Cambridge, which used high-speed cameras, an underwater microphone, and a microphone on dry land to capture precisely when and how a falling droplet of water plinks.
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Sarah Gibbens,
National Geographic,
22 June 2018
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