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
• Smooth, shiny flows known as pāhoehoe and the cinder or clinker-like kind called ‘A‘ā.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• 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 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 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
• 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
• The living area has its the original woodwork and original clinker-brick fireplace.
  — Alina Dizik, WSJ, 9 June 2022
• Vikings used clinker design—overlapping planks fastened with rivets and roves (right).
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 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
• 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
• Before that, shipbuilders primarily used traditional clinker construction methods, popular among the Vikings, which featured overlapping planks.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• Using different raw materials for clinker could dramatically lower the remaining 60 percent of carbon emissions.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Emissions-reduction proposals involve making processes more energy-efficient, switching to alternative fuels and using less clinker.
  — Maitane Sardon, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• If this is what life in the clinker is like… well, lock us up.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 July 2021
• Smooth, shiny flows known as pāhoehoe and the cinder or clinker-like kind called ‘A‘ā.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• 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 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 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
• 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
• The living area has its the original woodwork and original clinker-brick fireplace.
  — Alina Dizik, WSJ, 9 June 2022
• Vikings used clinker design—overlapping planks fastened with rivets and roves (right).
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 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
• 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
• Before that, shipbuilders primarily used traditional clinker construction methods, popular among the Vikings, which featured overlapping planks.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• Using different raw materials for clinker could dramatically lower the remaining 60 percent of carbon emissions.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Emissions-reduction proposals involve making processes more energy-efficient, switching to alternative fuels and using less clinker.
  — Maitane Sardon, WSJ, 3 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024