clack

Dozens of “staff members” fill rows of desks in the bullpen — some clack away on keyboards, others have phone receivers sandwiched between their head and shoulders while taking notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

There is the intermittent purr of generators, dogs barking, and, from time to time, the dry clack of domino tiles echoing in the street.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

He’d yell hi, then clack away for a few minutes, while I took out my notebook and strolled through the place, playing writer and cataloguing the apartment’s meager contents.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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

Hazel’s giant tail keeps harassing him and she clacks her teeth, shakes as if frozen in front of an oncoming car, and makes more “nuts” puns than you might expect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024

She visits the market, for instance; he clacks at a typewriter.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022

It is most noiseful, the air full of booms and clangs and pomps and clacks.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

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

That day she wore sensible ankle boots, which clacked against the ground as she added palm oil to her basket, then hot sauce for her husband.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 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

He specializes in down-to-earth poetry, clacked out impromptu on his manual 1928 Remington Portable No. 2.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

Determined, Omakayas yelled louder and clacked her sticks.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Sonia-Wallace describes the clacking of the typewriter as his siren song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

There's a reassuring clacking as the individual letters hit the blank white page in quick, noisy succession:

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

Then they have a bunch of specific calls they give when interacting with others to keep the interaction going longer, such as laughing during play, or teeth clacking during grooming,” Crockford said.

From Salon ● May 29, 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

Whatever the reason, she now walks briskly out of the room, heels clacking on parquet floors, and by the time I catch up to her, she's already pinning on a navy hat.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse