4 example sentences using winkle.
Winkle used in a sentence
Winkle in a sentence as a noun
I have many technical questions about your service, but rather than try and winkle them out of you, I place the burden of proof on you to make me care.
" includes a list of alternately ordinary and humorous words: shoe, megaphone, grunties, Wankel rotary engine, ****, winkle, and vibraphone.
Winkle in a sentence as a verb
The problem is calling it a good option makes "we spent five years fighting for the right to our tiny shack" sound like a reasonable thing rather than one more absurd winkle in the development of this country's housing situation.
Maybe a Modern Marvels on future weapons...But in any case, they were interviewing a crusty old veteran of WW1, and he said something to the effect of "You can have all the planes and tanks and new gizmos, but you're still going to have some poor bastard in the mud to winkle the other poor bastard out of his foxhole and make him sign the armistice.
Winkle definitions
small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
See also: periwinkle
edible marine gastropod
See also: periwinkle
emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
See also: twinkle scintillate
remove or displace from a position