How do you use Jinks in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like hijinks or merrymaking, plus the exact meaning.
Jinks meaning
plural of jink
Synonyms of Jinks
Using Jinks
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of jink
- Useful related words include: high jinks, hijinks, high jinx, merrymaking.
- In the example corpus, jinks often appears in combinations such as: high jinks, jinks and, jinks his.
Context around Jinks
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jinks
- In this selection, "jinks" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, high, cody, specially, performing, past and head stand out and add context to how "jinks" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and hi jinks we ve and and specially jinks who led. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jinks" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jinks
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Rated R for demonic high jinks and hellish home décor. (10 words)
Fernandes jinks his way past Winks and lashes a swerver towards goal. (12 words)
He jinks his way down the floor, can finish with both hands and through contact, too. (16 words)
The mixture of high jinks and deep dread is entirely Rice’s: her centres on a stage magician who specialises in throwing knives at women and sawing them in half; the goriest moments take place under a glitter ball. (39 words)
It's a great goal from the Algerian as he picks up the ball on the halfway line and jinks past the Sheffield United defence before dispatching the ball into the back of the net. (35 words)
The two anthropomorphic companions will likely get into tons of laugh-out-loud high jinks, and thankfully, fans of all ages will have quite a few options to see the new series once it premieres. (35 words)
Larmour jinks up to within 15 metres of the Wales line and Ireland win a penalty, which they kick to the corner and win! (24 words)
Rafinha jinks into the box after a neat give-and-go with Sergi Roberto – but the Brazilian slips at the crucial moment! (22 words)
Example sentences (20)
Perhaps the biggest live concert in June is Cody Jinks performing at the Broadmoor World Arena on June 9. Ward Davis is set to perform with Jinks.
It's a great goal from the Algerian as he picks up the ball on the halfway line and jinks past the Sheffield United defence before dispatching the ball into the back of the net.
Our favourite wedding planners are back, after making us wait for nearly five years,band, baaja and baraat of Delhi’s high-society with their endless hi-jinks.
The two anthropomorphic companions will likely get into tons of laugh-out-loud high jinks, and thankfully, fans of all ages will have quite a few options to see the new series once it premieres.
The mixture of high jinks and deep dread is entirely Rice’s: her centres on a stage magician who specialises in throwing knives at women and sawing them in half; the goriest moments take place under a glitter ball.
Couldn't be happier for the boys and specially Jinks who led the team to victory amazingly.
Fernandes jinks his way past Winks and lashes a swerver towards goal.
Dr Tim Jinks, head of Wellcome's Drug Resistant Infection programme, said: "Untreatable cases of gonorrhoea are harbingers of a wider crisis, where common infections are harder and harder to treat.
He can be chatty and colloquial, all banter and bonhomie, recalling teenage high jinks with dizzied abandon.
He jinks his way down the floor, can finish with both hands and through contact, too.
Larmour jinks up to within 15 metres of the Wales line and Ireland win a penalty, which they kick to the corner and win!
Rafinha jinks into the box after a neat give-and-go with Sergi Roberto – but the Brazilian slips at the crucial moment!
Rated R for demonic high jinks and hellish home décor.
Sometimes, to write a page of TV history, you need to resort to hi-jinks and / or an abundance of dramatic tension.
It’s opening up a bit more for France now as Mbappe very nearly jinks his way through before Giroud snatches at an effort and it sails over.
The entire half-hour revolves around the family’s slapstick high jinks during a weekend away at Haley’s (Sarah Hyland) boss’s mansion for wine tasting.
The President looks so dim he can’t even grasp that his hi-jinks are completely obvious.
The squash court has become Jinks' "second home" as she trains nearly every day and hopes to keep competing well past high school.
This hasn’t gone to city council since at least 1988, if not before,” Jinks said.
Voltron: Legendary Defender season 6 arrives today on Netflix, delivering another dose of the heroics and hi-jinks we've come to expect of the Paladins and their allies.
Common combinations with jinks
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: