clank

Example Sentences

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The prison through which he is escorted is a maze of many gates, rusted metal barriers to movement that echo, with every thud and clank, the stymied processes of Soviet justice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

It’s already quite hot inside my shoebox apartment as the radiators clank away, drowning out my upstairs neighbor’s heavy footsteps with their cacophonous symphony.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

"It feels like a prison," he says as the gates clank shut behind him.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

Rumble, wheeze, groan, roar, whoosh, clank, thud, creak and repeat — this, for me, is the onset of bus reverie.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2024

Horses whickered; there came the shouts of men and the clank of weapons.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander