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

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

They rolled out SpongeBob SquarePants sleeping bags on marble floors that were usually filled with the clacking of legislators’ shoes.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2025

Cell doors shut noiselessly, with the silence only broken when guards use clacking devices or banged metal pipes to warn colleagues that they were escorting a suspect to avoid meeting others.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023

I listened to the chair rockers clacking on the tiles, the isolated cock crowing, and far off, the sound of hoof beats, getting closer, closer.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez