clacking

Example Sentences

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We saw an egret and a rabbit, and when I heard a clacking sound, Mike brightened.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

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

Sound: the whirring and clacking of many machines.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

Here the sky opens up, and she hears the clacking of branches: that’s the narrow stripe of gardens behind the Gallery of Paleontology.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr