clack
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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
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
Between songs came the clack and rattle of the carts and walking people.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
The camera cuts to Elizabeth’s actual surroundings: a New York City apartment, where the radiator clacks and hisses in place of a crackling fire, and the view is brick, not snow-dusted pasture.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
It is a kitchen of clicks and clacks, of ASMR, of packets ripped open and weekly restock hauls.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025
“We’re booksellers through and through,” Cornell says on a recent Saturday morning before the store opens, the clacks of passing skateboarders intermingling with the tolling bells of the nearby railroad crossing as he speaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
During one section, a musician clacks out a repetitive, pulsing rhythm, punctuated by steady puffs on a flute.
From New York Times ● 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 dipped their shoe polish beaks into the water and clacked and honked.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 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
Antlers clacked on antlers, cartilage snapped, and the breath of three thousand animals rose over the fence.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019
Wooden hoops dangled from her ears, and when she waved a hand, the thick bangles on her wrist clacked against each other noisily.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
Sound: the whirring and clacking of many machines.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
She heard Festus clacking and whirring, the reactivated alarm bells ringing.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
