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Chinks in sentence

17 examples of Chinks in a sentence

And how these narratives resonate with the public may once again reveal chinks in our financial armor.
But, as was the case back then, a closer look reveals a number of chinks in the armor.
The door, however, shut very badly, and had such large chinks in it, that the road could be seen between the worm-eaten planks.
Through the chinks of the wood the sun sent across the flooring long fine rays that were broken at the corners of the furniture and trembled along the ceiling.
Tom and Huck rose up, weak but vastly relieved, and stared after them through the chinks between the logs of the house.
She had fashioned it out of water-worn stones and sea shells, with mosses and ferns in the chinks.
But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; even there the pestilence of gallantry will make its way to them through chinks or on the air by the zeal of its accursed importunity, and, despite of all seclusion, lead them to ruin.
"Look ye, senor," said Sancho, "there's no enchantment here, nor anything of the sort, for between the bars and chinks of the cage I have seen the paw of a real lion, and judging by that I reckon the lion such a paw could belong to must be bigger than a mountain."
A little light reaches it through some chinks or crevices, communicating with it and open to the surface of the earth.
The tattered remains of a checked curtain were drawn round the bed's head, to exclude the wind, which, however, made its way into the comfortless room through the numerous chinks in the door, and blew it to and fro every instant.
The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown, which had not seen the light for twenty years, saving and excepting such truant rays as had stolen through the chinks in the box in which it had been laid by, during the whole time.
The doors had been torn from their hinges and removed; the linings had been stripped off, only a shred hanging here and there by a rusty nail; the lamps were gone, the poles had long since vanished, the ironwork was rusty, the paint was worn away; the wind whistled through the chinks in the bare woodwork; and the rain, which had collected on the roofs, fell, drop by drop, into the insides with a hollow and melancholy sound.
Once upon a time there had been rude steps leading down the almost sheer descent, but the naked feet had worn them to glassy knobs and lumps, and blown dust had made a thin soil in their chinks.
"Is the young Guardsman at home?""I do not think he is; as you see, his shutter is closed, and you can see no light shine through the chinks of the shutters."
No light appeared through the chinks of the shutters; no noise gave reason to believe that it was inhabited.
Through the chinks of that armour of folly I have sometimes thought that I had caught a glimpse of a good and true man within, and it pleases me to hope that I was right.
The light of the moon came through chinks in the woodwork, when the high wind chased the clouds.