clank

The prison through which he is escorted is a maze of many gates, rusted metal barriers to movement that echo, with every thud and clank, the stymied processes of Soviet justice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

However, the clank of granite went against them in the seventh, an unfortunate bounce leaving Canada the chance of three, which they gladly took.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

It’s already quite hot inside my shoebox apartment as the radiators clank away, drowning out my upstairs neighbor’s heavy footsteps with their cacophonous symphony.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

“All is fair where you wear the crown,” snipes Gal Gadot’s evil queen, who wears slinky ballgowns made of obsidian shards that clatter and clank with every step.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

I pull out a box of metal brackets, nuts and bolts, drill bits and nails—things that clank together as I set it down.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Mr. Rasmussen makes Douglass’s conversion vivid and persuasive; Mr. Rebeiro exposes its jurisprudential machinery with impressive precision, even when that machinery clanks a little.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The barge also retains fixtures from Panto’s days: Patinated rigging blocks hang from the ceiling; a century-old bell clanks when the barge jerks.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

Then suddenly, his jump shot clanks off the rim, and a teenager crashes the scene.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022

Yet they can’t do any of this while Westbrook and his clanks and his complaining are allowed to create a sort of mud into which this shiny new car’s back tires are sinking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

I lie motionless;—somewhere something clanks, it stamps and stumbles nearer—all my nerves become taut and icy.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

“If they clanked, which a lot of them did.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

But as silky smooth as the sequence looked — and as strange as a slump from Watkins seemed — the step-back clanked away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

Courage midfielder Manaka Matsukubo had the crowd gasping in the 74th minute when her possible game-winner clanked off the cross bar.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

He smiled as another shell clanked into the dumpster.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

The dungeon door clanked shut, leaving the prisoners staring at the pile of uncut stones in the flickering light.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

As the din of clanking metal dims, the smell of grease and exhaust lingers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

We watched him operate a vintage letterpress, the mechanisms whirring and clanking like a steam engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

The sound of clanking leg shackles could be heard moments before Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro walked into the door of a New York City courtroom for the first time.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

It’s not yet 11 a.m., but punk music blasts from the speakers, punctuated by the rumbling and clanking of skateboard wheels on concrete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025

Just the sound of fork clanking against plate, water splashing against pot.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson