clack
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The gunshot clack that follows is resin on resin, the cue ball rippling off the pack of reds, signalling the start of a stage show without a script.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
I will read each new directive from my political leadership and clack away at my keyboard to implement it as best as I can.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2025
“Let’s go, let’s go,” Barraza says, striding through the halls, each clack of his leather boots ringing out like an act of defiance to a society that has long rejected people like him.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
And if she turned away from faces looking past her through restaurant windows, that Violet heard the clack of the plate glass in mean March wind.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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
She visits the market, for instance; he clacks at a typewriter.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022
The birdcall clacks through the canopy in the Tanzanian bush not far from Lake Eyasi.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2022
The German haunts her: in nightmares, he’s a spider crab three meters high; he clacks his claws and whispers One simple question into her ear.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
They might have growled, hissed, clicked or even bill clacked, opening and closing their beaks to make a clattering sound.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 10, 2022
Six minutes later, the judge clacked the gavel.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2020
Cameras clacked and commotion swirled as they held up their hands.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
It clacked and whistled along with the machinery.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
We saw an egret and a rabbit, and when I heard a clacking sound, Mike brightened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Then they have a bunch of specific calls they give when interacting with others to keep the interaction going longer, such as laughing during play, or teeth clacking during grooming,” Crockford said.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
Sound: the whirring and clacking of many machines.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
The din of clacking keyboards grew noticeably softer for a minute or two, as we all made an effort to gently swipe our keys subtly rather than banging them like we were auditioning for Stomp.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2023
“The clacking was like to drive me mad.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
