clack

Dozens of “staff members” fill rows of desks in the bullpen — some clack away on keyboards, others have phone receivers sandwiched between their head and shoulders while taking notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

There is the intermittent purr of generators, dogs barking, and, from time to time, the dry clack of domino tiles echoing in the street.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

"I see it - just two metres, three metres... click, clack, bang," he said.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

Imagine “the incessant clack of cowboy boots against the cobblestones” that could have been, he thinks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

An hour or more later the clack of the train changed pitch: we were crossing a trestle.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The camera cuts to Elizabeth’s actual surroundings: a New York City apartment, where the radiator clacks and hisses in place of a crackling fire, and the view is brick, not snow-dusted pasture.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025

It is a kitchen of clicks and clacks, of ASMR, of packets ripped open and weekly restock hauls.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025

“We’re booksellers through and through,” Cornell says on a recent Saturday morning before the store opens, the clacks of passing skateboarders intermingling with the tolling bells of the nearby railroad crossing as he speaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

She visits the market, for instance; he clacks at a typewriter.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022

It is most noiseful, the air full of booms and clangs and pomps and clacks.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

When friends clacked at keyboards, examined patients, or taught middle schoolers math, I bicycled Arthur's froggy legs because humans aren't born knowing how to pass gas.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022

Below, amid leafy plants and colorful lighting, employees at tech start-ups clacked away on MacBooks and sketched on whiteboards.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022

Antlers clacked on antlers, cartilage snapped, and the breath of three thousand animals rose over the fence.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019

“All of those are usually traced back to just having been animal bones clacked together, probably in prehistoric times.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2018

The guide's shoes clacked down the tile floor.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

There's a reassuring clacking as the individual letters hit the blank white page in quick, noisy succession:

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

To be completely fair, if Perkins sought out to make a film that was brutal for brutality’s sake, I might not even be sitting here, clacking away on my keyboard.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2025

Case in point: When Oppenheimer climbs the Trinity test tower in the desert during a windstorm, King’s team added the sound of clacking cables and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

As the clacking electronic beats swept in and Lewis’ airy backing vocals signaled the crew was ready for liftoff, the crowd erupted in response.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

It was coming from the kitchen, clicking and clacking over the shushing sound of rain.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds