Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : The coins clinked together. He clinked the fork against a glass.    From Dictionary.com. 

The sound of gold coins clinking was clear and loud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Mercenary]

(Soundbite of coin clinking on table) PESCA: Here you go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Replay Smoosh Raises the Lights with 'Dark Shine'] Reference

The golden coins clinking in her hand would have purchased a far greater service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Maritza] Reference

Jim fumbled cash onto the counter, coins clinking and bouncing, bills fluttering.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Corpse is a Corpse]

I shall therefore invest my five louis in the certain hope of seventy-five beautiful golden coins clinking into my hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mountebank] Reference

Physicians who hear the sound of coins clinking have incentive to recommend procedures that cost a lot but may have dubious benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not So Routine Physicals] Reference

A pair of doxies, dark-eyed twins, hawked their wares among the tables, their girdies of coins clinking as their hips swayed in unison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Magnificent]

It sounded really quite bizarre too - it made a kind of clinking, cracking sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Leaving Portcullis House with a Tesco bag full of suspiciously "clinking" cargo: a certain PPS who is always "just being sociable"!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

At the same time there was a metallic, clinking sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference

(Soundbite of clinking) ADAMS: And here are his plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potter's Wood-Fired Kiln Sparks Friendships] Reference

Her spoon made a clinking sound against the inside of her cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early One Morning at Denny's] Reference

The last thing Percy heard was a spoon clinking against a pan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

As I did so, something fell upon the floor with a clinking noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

The clinking glasses and barritone buzzings had altogether subsided.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inroads] Reference

As he passed the tea tables he heard the clinking of ice in glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference

The wheat sack with its clinking contents was cast into the open hatch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

The clinking of silver, questions, answers, and expostulations went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

After dinner there is joyful swing, clinking of champagne glasses, laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aria] Reference

The CIA man thought the sound came from gold bars clinking against each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Days Of Saigon] Reference

O, she loved the clinking of glasses when the toast was to nobles and princes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ballads of Richard Thompson] Reference

The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes, and pelts of snowballs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'] Reference

If you could get close enough to their homes, you just hear the clinking of coins.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Ceo Heads Roll] Reference

At the sound of the clinking irons, the prisoner suffered collapse then and there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

Then Costa stirred and there was the sound of metal clinking slightly on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The K-Factor] Reference

I heard her adding more ice cubes, which were clinking against the sides of the glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Your Brother] Reference

Outside, there is laughter, music, the clinking of glasses, the talk of evening plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Night] Reference

(Soundbite of silverware clinking) STAMBERG: The stuff at the Freer is nothing like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue And White And Mad All Over: 'Chinamania'] Reference

Between intros he lauds one of the campers, too, clinking fists with him Wonder Twins-style.    From Wordnik.com.  [RED, WHITE & PROUD] Reference

And clinking wine glasses, and fashion-show poses, and ladies wiping tears, and then -- dum-DUNH!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who are these women?: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#1, Aug. 5)] Reference

She does not know this because we have not told her about the billiard balls clinking around in her brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dying Tradition] Reference

The background noise there last Tuesday night consisted of popping corks, clinking champagne glasses and laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arnold's Earthquake] Reference

           I calculated for a minute while the ice cubes continued clinking on the other end of the line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams of Reality, 12] Reference

Stefan stood at the sink with his back to me, his frustration apparent in the loud clinking of the dishes he washed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Small Victory: stefan's secret] Reference