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clanking

[ UK /klˈæŋkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫæŋkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a hard nonresonant metallic sound
    clanking chains
    the clanking arms of the soldiers near him

How To Use clanking In A Sentence

  • The clanking sounded systematic somehow; not rhythmic like a drumbeat in music, yet purposeful.
  • Probably the printers had gone home for the day, so there would have been no clanking flatbed press.
  • Bottles roll clanking on the floor, under the bonnet a hung-up tappet or two chatters its story of discomfort. Gravity's Rainbow
  • `Let me at the scoundrel ,' he cried, clanking across the yard, and throwing open his visor. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Gustav spoke, his voice fading and his armor clanking as he moved away.
  • Thus Alastair Campbell, a key press aide, had "clanking great balls", George Bush is a "normal guy" and Alan Milburn, a favourite minister, was "fully simpatico with the direction of change".
  • Abbadon steered himself through the maze-like tower, his heavy boots clanking with each step.
  • The heels of her clogs clanking on the wooden desk floor, Matim Henoscil headed to a group of young ladies gathered near the railings.
  • Also the great flob was there, who came clattering and clanking up from the bottom of the basin, with his hard shells and heavy claws, as if he was the greatest fish alive. Ting-a-ling
  • Yet at virtually no time, amid the clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk that rattles through "Dark of the Moon," is there the sense that such a gap has been spanned. 'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty
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