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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of plink
Noun
The plink of a piano wafted in from the Music Hall by the water’s edge, and on a nearby point, the American flag billowed in the breeze. Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2023 Over slight variations of the same round-and-round keyboard plink, Boo becomes a sassy stripper confronting cheap patrons on ‘Can I Get Paid?’. Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
Verb
Crepuscular synth pads plink over gritty drum kicks, and by the time the blaring alarm sounds, you’ll be fully entangled with a new lover. Pitchfork, 13 Dec. 2023 Here’s a kalimba, an African thumb piano with metal tines that plink like a music box. Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021 See All Example Sentences for plink
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plink
Verb
  • On Saturday, my phone pinged with an alert from an I.D.F. spokesperson.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The sheriff’s office attempted to ping the man’s phone but was unable to determine a location.
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Players can also peak and lean around corners, which minimizes the opportunities to get sniped.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The very antisemitism that Renoir underscores with the dialogue and the casting was partly responsible for the film’s commercial failure: right-wing viewers, aware of Renoir’s left-wing politics, came out to boo when Dalio was onscreen, and rightist critics sniped at the character, too.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Amid grills cooking savory barbecue, bubbles blowing from an ice cream truck, face painting and peals of laughter from kids in a nearby bouncy house, Justine Mosely Stephens was struggling not to tear up.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
  • Amal wore a strapless white Tamara Ralph Haute Couture gown which was draped in peals from top to bottom, with some wrapped around her arms below the shoulder.
    Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025
Verb
  • He was pulled in favor of Seranthony Dominguez, who plunked his first batter, then gave up the decisive blow, an Eugenio Suárez grand slam that sent the T-Mobile Park crowd into hysteria.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Ye Fan for The New York Times Caroline Palmer was telling the story of how she got hired at Vogue in 2001 when a waitress at Tierney’s Tavern plunked two pints of beer and a pile of glistening onion rings on the table between us.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cloudy chords, meditative tintinnabulation, the whoosh of wind and rain, blocks of iridescent brass — all these discrete sonorities trundled by, like a train of boxcars with panoramas painted on their sides.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
Verb
  • Fashionistas, artists, and business people clink glasses at the bar and claim a corner of a couch to catch up.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The sound of laughter and clinking glass pours out of the windows and onto the streets.
    Jonathan Terrell, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Oilers effectively peppered the Canucks netminder, landing 37 shots on goal, to just 15 for Vancouver.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Kuminga scored 13 points on 5 of 8 shooting, overwhelming defenders at the rim with his athleticism, and peppering in a slick catch-and-shoot jumper from the short corner for three points.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The clang of a political gong is deafening.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Like the clang of bells, the sound bypassed my ears and punched the air from my lungs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Plink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plink. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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