Examples of plink in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Here’s a kalimba, an African thumb piano with metal tines that plink like a music box. — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021 High capacity allows target shooters to plink away for longer periods without having to stop and laboriously handload. — Aaron Smith, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021 The seven-time Grammy-winning Newman, sheltering in place with his dog whining in the background, sat down at his piano and casually plinked out an offering as comfortable as macaroni and cheese. — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020 It was boosted further in 2013 when Glee delivered a brilliant rendition — via a leather-clad and piano-plinking Darren Criss — during a Season Four episode. — Bobby Olivier, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2019 On Saturday summer evenings, my dad, brother, cousins, Uncle Hans, and I spent countless hours there plinking at marauding rats. — Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2020 These little guns are effective and tons of fun for squirrels and bunnies, on the skeet field, or for just plinking around. — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 18 Sep. 2019 Bushnell’s Deploy reticle is among the simplest of the hash-mark-heavy options out there, and 4.5- to 27-power provides ridiculous versatility, whether plinking at long-range or cleaning up prairie dogs. — Michael R. Shea, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2020 The hours spent plinking with such a toy can instill a love of archery that lasts a lifetime. — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 20 Nov. 2019 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun That leaves us with the plink master, the first rifle many of us called our own, the humble .22. — Johnny Carrol Sain, Outdoor Life, 6 Oct. 2020 Mike Goodman raised his golf club in a graceful arc, uncoiled and — with a swift metallic plink — sent the white ball streaking over the first fairway of the Worthington Manor Golf Club in Frederick County. — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 7 May 2020 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. — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2020 With a series of plinks, the stomach contents slumped out onto the metal sieve below. — Rachel Becker, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2019 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. — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 June 2018 Researchers have also spent the last century or so trying to figure out how the plink sound is produced. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 June 2018 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. — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 June 2018 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. — Jonathan Ringen, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2017 See More

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