clack
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The gunshot clack that follows is resin on resin, the cue ball rippling off the pack of reds, signalling the start of a stage show without a script.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Imagine “the incessant clack of cowboy boots against the cobblestones” that could have been, he thinks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
I will read each new directive from my political leadership and clack away at my keyboard to implement it as best as I can.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2025
They preen, contort their necks, clack their beaks, renovate their nest and occasionally mate.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
An hour or more later the clack of the train changed pitch: we were crossing a trestle.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
TikTok serves up step-by-step mise en place with soft jazz and fingernail clacks; mukbang creators rake in millions by eating crab legs in front of a ring light.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025
It is a kitchen of clicks and clacks, of ASMR, of packets ripped open and weekly restock hauls.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025
Mottley remembers hearing the hard clicks and clacks of his typing late into the night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
She visits the market, for instance; he clacks at a typewriter.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022
People cheer for us, and Rosa waves and clacks her clappers in the air and calls, “Hi!” and “Thank you!”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
When friends clacked at keyboards, examined patients, or taught middle schoolers math, I bicycled Arthur's froggy legs because humans aren't born knowing how to pass gas.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022
They might have growled, hissed, clicked or even bill clacked, opening and closing their beaks to make a clattering sound.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 10, 2022
Six minutes later, the judge clacked the gavel.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2020
The girls, many of them at least, took typing, where they clacked on manual typewriters that looked as if they were World War II vintage.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2019
The old monk's walking stick clacked in time to his steps as he called to the people who came out to greet them.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
You can credit me later with tickets, and so, yes, it is being held together with tape because I was clacking it too much in Vegas and Seattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
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
It was like when she’d be sitting in class for forty-five minutes and finally get so bored she’d notice the stupid heater had been clacking and smashing away the whole time.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
