clank
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As the sun sank, neighbors began banging spoons on metal pots from inside their homes, the subtle but unmistakable clank of government protests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026
However, the clank of granite went against them in the seventh, an unfortunate bounce leaving Canada the chance of three, which they gladly took.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 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
The early scenes have a certain ponderous solemnity as two hunter-warrior-predator brothers from the Yautja race fight for honor with weapons that combine the clank of all things medieval with modern pizzazz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Officer Salzburg set his fork down with a loud clank, and I jumped guiltily.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
With sweaty insecurity, Tucker steps on his punchlines and clanks the setups.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Then suddenly, his jump shot clanks off the rim, and a teenager crashes the scene.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022
Maybe until the final seconds of the season opener when he clanks one?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
We discern distinct melodies linking the clanks and buzzes of Song Sparrow songs, sentencelike structure in the Red-winged Blackbird’s pronouncement of conk-la-ree! and a cheery whistle in the wide-open-beaked songs of the White-throated Sparrow.
From Scientific American ● May 4, 2022
Jesper had expected some thunderous noise, but except for a few creaks and clanks, the machinery was silent.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
But as silky smooth as the sequence looked — and as strange as a slump from Watkins seemed — the step-back clanked away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
“John Cage would like this,” she said, gesturing at us with the ever-present two cigarettes in her hand, as forks clanked on plates.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
He smiled as another shell clanked into the dumpster.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
His drive clanked off the foul pole in front of the second deck, turning a Yankees runaway into what became an Orioles thriller.
From Washington Times ● May 25, 2023
The bus clanked into gear as I got up to open my window.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
As the din of clanking metal dims, the smell of grease and exhaust lingers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Coronado climbed a ladder up the pueblo walls in his clanking armor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The air thrums with the din of destruction — giant excavators clanking against steel beams, trucks bleating out warning signals as they back into position, green organic material whooshing out of hoses onto finished sites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
"So that means we're going to see lights and hear lorries and cars and clanking about," says Jenny Upson, 74, a Felixstowe Road resident for 17 years.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
The clanking of a pot hitting the floor jolts my body finally awake.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
