How to Use clinker in a Sentence

clinker

noun

• If this is what life in the clinker is like… well, lock us up.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 July 2021
• But there are no outright clinkers in the bunch, either.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
• The new process changes the pathway by which clinker minerals form.
  — New Atlas, 26 May 2026
• Smooth, shiny flows known as pāhoehoe and the cinder or clinker-like kind called ‘A‘ā.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• The clinker is then cooled and ground with gypsum into a fine powder, which is called cement.
  — Alcina Johnson Sudagar, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026
• Hot clinker is run across grates where air blowers cool it to about 100 degrees C.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Roller mills or ball mills grind the clinker and gypsum into a fine gray powder known as Portland cement.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Vikings used clinker design—overlapping planks fastened with rivets and roves (right).
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• Many clinkers, or fake ones, have extreme durability.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
• The middle layer of about three inches of clinker—a coal or volcanic residue—helps retain moisture so the top layers don’t crack.
  — Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• This method was used during the Viking Age as a way to make the vessel lighter and stronger and is known as clinker construction.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
• The clinker is then ground into a fine powder and mixed with other materials, such as gypsum, to make cement.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• That process creates something called clinker, a binding agent, by stripping carbon dioxide from the limestone.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• In other words, a mixture of mainly turkeys and a couple of blockbusters that hopefully will pay for all the clinkers and then some.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The recipe for cement requires lots of a key ingredient called clinker, the crumbly binding agent in the entire mixture.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
• The living area has its the original woodwork and original clinker-brick fireplace.
  — Alina Dizik, WSJ, 9 June 2022
• Modern brick kilns are designed to minimize or eliminate clinkers.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
• Last year, the two companies said their trial project in Spain produced clinker without fossil fuels.
  — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
• To make cement, limestone and other clay-like materials are heated in a massive kiln and turned into a lumpy substance known as clinker.
  — Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2021
• Take 419, which is one of two made of nubby clinker brick, a medieval look that matches the Gothic arches over the main entrance and the door to a maisonette.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2025
• The Victoria was built with a carvel-planking method (as opposed to the clinker method) wherein wood planks were laid side-by-side rather than overlapping to increase the ship’s strength.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2022
• For every ton of clinker produced, about 1,300 pounds of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• Up until the 20th century, Nordic clinker boats were used for fishing, trade, and transport in coastal regions of Norway.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2025
• Being able to swap a fraction of the carbon-intensive clinker for a cheaper waste product has been a boon both environmentally and economically.
  — Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
• Portland cement — the most common type, developed in the early 19th century — is made predominantly of a substance called clinker.
  — Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
• Cement’s main ingredient, clinker, is produced by burning fossil fuels to heat a kiln containing powdered limestone, which releases carbon dioxide when heated.
  — Maitane Sardon, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Typically, clinker is made by heating limestone and clay in a rotating kiln to temperatures above 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
• Cement production alone generates about 8% of global CO₂ because emissions arise both from the fuel burned in kilns and from the calcination of limestone into clinker.
  — Ankit Mishra, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
• Potential low-carbon pathway Reducing concrete clinker use remains a key priority for lowering emissions in construction.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025
• Some techniques for reducing carbon dioxide emissions include substituting some of the clinker – the hard residue typically made from limestone – with supplementary materials such as clay, or fly ash and slag from industries.
  — Alcina Johnson Sudagar, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026