clunking

Example Sentences

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Eight men sliding 16 stones down an ice sheet to the soundtrack of clunking granite, furious sweeping and hollered commands of "hard" and "curl".

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

Foul balls clunking loudly upon landing in the seats.

From Washington Times • Jul. 24, 2020

Foul balls clunking loudly upon landing in the seats.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2020

This type of wry evangelicalism was about as close to later English Puritanism as Italian eurocommunism would be to the clunking fist of Stalinism.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018

The speaker in the airport terminal crackles to life, a muffled voice breaking through the morning chatter and the suitcase wheels clunking over the tiled floor.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott