clang
Example Sentences
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The metal locker door closes with a clang.
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The disrupted lanterns careened into an avalanche of chaos, until every lamp was swinging and colliding and clanging.
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All day long the horse-drawn trolley clopped and clanged past our house to stop at the Grote Markt, the central town square half a block away.
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We spelled each other down to the continual clang of the cowbell and wore the dictionary out, looking up meanings.
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The windows weren’t glassed in at the rear of the streetcar, and the wind cooled my face as we screeched and clanged through streets teeming with motorcars and pedestrians.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.