Example sentences for: cinch

How can you use “cinch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Clinton's Bosnia plan will require congressional approval--a cinch, the pundits said, because he has already drawn down U.S. troops in Bosnia from 27,000 to about 8,500 and no U.S. soldiers have been killed.

  • These are lashings to cinch the shrouds in closer to the mast, to allow the yards a few extra degrees of swing.

  • (The old $20s trailed only the $1 bills as a counterfeit cinch.)

  • It is a cinch for kids to play video lottery machines, since they are often found in businesses that kids frequent.

  • Ranch words of Mexican origin, besides ranch itself, are: rodeo, latigo `a long strap to fasten the cinch to a Western saddle,' corral (a word I could not find in an English dictionary, except in its Afrikaans form kraal, when I needed to know how to spell it some sixty years ago), bronc(o), palomino, buckeroo (which I have heard used only in fun), and chaps, to list a few that come to mind.


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