How to Use kink in a Sentence

kink

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  • Hart said the game helped work out some of the kinks in the new lineup.
    — Matt Stahl | [email protected], al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The Browns hope so and will use the preseason to work out the kinks.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That said, a single kink in the chain can throw the whole thing off.
    — Fatima Ali, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Read on and trim coils, kinks, waves, and curls the right way, while at home.
    — Akili King, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Woods hits a straight, 290-yard drive, avoiding the bunkers to the left at the kink of the fairway.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2020
  • There will be plenty of time to iron out the kinks that come from those changes.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • So Hill will conceivably have more time to work out the kinks in the first two weeks of the year.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • As with all startups and all AI, there are kinks to work out.
    — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Like any new kink, start small, slow, and choose a safeword.
    — Angie Jones, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Testers found that the hose did kink a bit, but the kinks straightened out quickly.
    — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
  • The room smelled of wet and bodies and kink and adoration.
    — Hayley Folk, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2022
  • There will be more of us to come, more kink hikers out for our own blood.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The final corner is a subtle kink on the front straight.
    — Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
  • This character wants to just get their rocks off and get their kink on.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Buolamwini tried not to think much of it, assumed the kinks would be worked out.
    — Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
  • However, there are still many kinks to iron out for the scaling-up process.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Another common kink, in most horror and in my faves, is the shot from the bad guy’s point of view.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The massage pillow will work on your muscles and knead out those kinks.
    — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In years past, most of the kinks in the transportation system have been worked out within two weeks.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Her Beatrice is rich, spoiled and haughty, but has a weird love for Burt (heightened by his scars in a weird kink).
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The ride is short, and its purpose is simply to work out the kinks before the real trip begins.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The body itself is less chunky than the concept's, but the upwards kink on the window line has carried over.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2022
  • But this may only be temporary while the kinks get worked out.
    — Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • There was a quavering kink at play that even a kid could detect.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a kink in the jet stream that is moving over the region this afternoon and offshore tonight.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • Get everything set up one day ahead for a practice run to work out any kinks.
    — William Neff, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
  • This will give the company more time to iron out some of the integration kinks.
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • This must be part of the reason why the terminology of kink dates so fast.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
  • With it being entirely livestreamed this year, were there any kinks with that?
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 22 June 2023
  • The kinks that were suppressed in our courtship were far from our original bargain.
    — Erika Wasser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
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kink

2 of 2 verb
  • The hose was sturdy, with a great grip, and did not kink at all.
    — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Testers found that the hose did kink a bit, but the kinks straightened out quickly.
    — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2022
  • In a lot of places, the stems actually snapped or kinked over.
    — Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
  • This hose isn't going to break, fray, kink or get tangled up.
    — Christine Persaud, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2021
  • This is visible in the top row of photos below, where the ring (the dark band) can be seen to kink inward.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 May 2020
  • Kinks Virtually all hoses will kink, even the kink-proof kind.
    — Kate Morgan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The hose also felt extremely durable, and didn’t kink a lot, whether empty or full.
    — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Pinch the horizontal wire with a pair of linesman pliers, then rotate your hand to kink the wire tight.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Try this weeding tool that gets in between paver crevices or the Flexzilla garden hose that promises not to kink.
    — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2022
  • Both hydrogen atoms occupy the same side of the double bond, forcing the molecule to kink at the bond.
    — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2014
  • From minimal to full-on bondage, leather harnesses are an easy way to kink up any outfit, even workwear.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Many a caver has died from flash floods, or worse, wedged into an unseen drop or kink, their bodies never to be recovered.
    — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Like many contemporary movies, this one kinks up its timeline.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2017
  • The inspectors also faulted the home for allowing an oxygen tube to kink while the resident used it.
    — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2020
  • From its lightweight design to durability, this hose gets the job done without kinking up.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023
  • According to the automaker, a frozen door latch or a bent or kinked actuation cable may result in a door that will not open or will not close.
    — William Thornton, AL.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Badly fitting standard stents can kink and bend, leading to complications such as the growth of new tissue and tissue death, the Clinic said.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2020
  • More than 400 turns and corners kink the raceway, according to Sports Illustrated, making the contest among the most difficult high-speed races on earth — and one of the most deadly.
    — Kyle Swenson, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
  • And while being kinky still comes with social stigmas, Stephanie*, a 25-year-old woman involved in the New York City kink scene, says kinks are increasingly viewed as mainstream.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The emergence of gay people into the mainstream and, more to the point, the ubiquity of internet pornography, have lifted Mapplethorpe’s kinks out of the shadows.
    — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 25 July 2019
  • Consider 3103 Spenard Road, where that crooked road begins to kink its way toward Minnesota Drive.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The automaker will add water shields to side-door latches to remedy the issue, which can occur when the latches are frozen or when the actuation cables get bent or kinked.
    — David Muller, Car and Driver, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Wires may sag and cause operating issues, and tracks can expand and potentially kink.
    — oregonlive, 30 July 2021
  • A long time ago in a star cluster far, far away … two curiously massive black holes collided and became one, unleashing a torrent of energy that kinked the fabric of space-time itself.
    — National Geographic, 1 June 2017
  • Also give some thought to replacing copper tubing which often kinks and detaches too easily.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2016
  • In addition to having high-end goodies, the company is woman-owned and has a bunch of awesomely feminist, frequently kink-friendly mantras all over their site and on their product descriptions.
    — Glamour, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Other details, such as the angular headlights and tortuously kinked sheetmetal, may appeal to some buyers.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 10 July 2017
  • Other details, such as the angular headlights and tortuously kinked sheetmetal, may appeal to some buyers.
    — Michael Simari, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Not only were their numbers dismal, but almost all of the male panthers showed signs of inbreeding depression, including undescended testicles, kinked tails and low sperm counts.
    — Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Not only were their numbers dismal, but almost all of the male panthers showed signs of inbreeding depression, including undescended testicles, kinked tails and low sperm counts.
    — Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017

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