How To Use Clanking In A Sentence
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The clanking sounded systematic somehow; not rhythmic like a drumbeat in music, yet purposeful.
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Probably the printers had gone home for the day, so there would have been no clanking flatbed press.
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Bottles roll clanking on the floor, under the bonnet a hung-up tappet or two chatters its story of discomfort.
Gravity's Rainbow
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`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
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Gustav spoke, his voice fading and his armor clanking as he moved away.
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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".
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Abbadon steered himself through the maze-like tower, his heavy boots clanking with each step.
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The heels of her clogs clanking on the wooden desk floor, Matim Henoscil headed to a group of young ladies gathered near the railings.
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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
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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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Breakfast was almost silent; the only sound the clanking of the bowls.
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Rational Review
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I love a mystery, but not if you hear the gears and wheels clinking and clanking in the background.
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Rational Review
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Whenever their team scored a goal, they leapt up and down clanking their beer cans together.
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I haven't seen anyone wearing cowboy hats or heard any spurs clanking.
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`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
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The clanking tractor went along , shooting smoke out of its belly.
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But hardly had we sat down ere we heard the tom-toming of the kettledrum and tantara of trumpets and clash of cymbals, and the rattling of war men's lances, and the clamors of assailants and the clanking of bits and the neighing of steeds, while the world was canopied with dense dust and sand clouds raised by the horses 'hoofs.
Tehran Winter
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Partly it is the vividness of it - the great, gleaming engines with their clanking levers and hissing gouts of steam, and the almost vaudevillian cast of characters.
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I walked over to him, my spurs clanking on the concrete platform and tipped the brim of my hat to him.
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But the word trooper must not conjure up a vision of belted horsemen, rigid in uniform, with clanking sabres, and helmets of brass.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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He stripped the leather gloves from his hands and pounded his fist into his steel palm with a clanking thud.
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I heard an alligator flop in the water and the drawbridge opening upstream, the great cogged wheels clanking together, a boat with a deep draft laboring against the incoming tide.
The Glass Rainbow
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Slot machines were clanking, the juke box blasting with Glen Campbell.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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A pause came, and I heard clanking in the background, repetitive and echoey, like thepingof a baseball against an aluminum bat.
Duplex
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Slot machines were clanking, the juke box blasting with Glen Campbell.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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If you don't believe us, try it — the sound of ice clanking in a shaker causes a kind of Pavlovian response in party-goers.
Party-Ready Punch
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We headed over to where activity had been sighted, our heavy armor clanking ridiculously.
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It's frustrating to see players get near the green in regulation, then start circling it to the right, clanking a bunch of chip shots off the hosel.
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clanking chains
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the clanking arms of the soldiers near him
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She fidgets throughout our chat, clanking a spoon on the table, tearing at the sauce sachets.
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I was genuinely quite shaken by the film, though - it's all machine guns rattling thunderously in your face and metal clanking noises - but the gore is pretty believable.
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My bike chain was clanking in an alarming way as I pedalled along.
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He laughed long and hard, bent over his knees, his armor jangling and clanking as his empty chest heaved.
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Whenever their team scored a goal, they leapt up and down clanking their beer cans together.
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A clanking, wheezing locomotive went past the cabin climbing the steep gradient.
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Probably the printers had gone home for the day, so there would have been no clanking flatbed press, but large sheets of uncut book pages would have been hanging from overhead wooden racks in the ceiling, the ink drying.
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The law-machine was clanking and clattering to its own weird rhythm.
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Ryan abruptly hung up the phone, the old receiver clanking heavily into the set.
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Rational Review
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So if you see me driving round in a big, clanking heavy old thing, you will know that I got it right and chose the car.
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My bike chain was clanking in an alarming way as I pedalled along.
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You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk ...
Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Alliteration
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The _No. 5_ heaved anchor, the chain clanking and chattering in a hawsepipe.
Poor Man's Rock
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We had no air conditioning in the warm months and clanking radiators in the winter.
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They got off the bus and were led, leg chains clanking and dragging on the cobbles as they shuffled along, following the warder.
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He yelled over the clanking and hissing of the hot metal being dunked into cold water.
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He could hear the sound of scraping and clanking metal.
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He raced towards the lake, his feet clanking on the tin roof, her own footsteps a bit louder behind him.
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At that moment, from across the river on whose banks they waited, there came a dull clanking, the sound muted by the damp atmosphere.
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He heard the shriek of the gale, the clanking of the flag against its mast, the jangling of the jailers chain and his heavy footfall.
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Balance is achieved, a harmony of opposites in concord rather than discord (c.f. the robot's voice and clanking).
Archive 2008-02-01
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'Clinking, clanking, caliginous collections of junk.'
Moonwar
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Like the generality of people who are psychic and who have never had an experience of the superphysical, my conception of a phantasm was a "thing" in white that made ridiculous groanings and still more ridiculous clankings of chains.
Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
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The law-machine was clanking and clattering to its own weird rhythm.
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That is not an idle boast, for the network is alive night and day with the thundering rattle of powerful locomotives and the incessant clanking of machinery in repair depots and marshalling yards.
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My bike chain was clanking in an alarming way as I pedalled along.
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Then she led him down the hallway, his suit of armor clanking in rhythm with his steps.
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The end result being that this carefully meditated montage of menacing reverb, clanking percussion and tender piano refrains establishes clear themes of late night melancholic reflection.
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Grimy tugboats lay beside the traps, shrilling the air with creaking winches as they "brailed" the struggling fish, a half-ton at a time, from the "pounds," now churned to milky foam by the ever-growing throng of prisoners; and all the time the big plants gulped the sea harvest, faster and faster, clanking and gnashing their metal jaws, while the mounds of salmon lay hip-deep to the crews that fed the butchering machines.
The Silver Horde
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His horse shied a little as a score of men heavily armed marched loudly past, metal armour clanking.
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The melodic Arabic intonations clash with the clanking of pots and pans in the steamy dishwater.
