clack
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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
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
The click and clack of metal sliding on metal echoes.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
To keep the audience on its toes, some scene changes are punctuated by blinding lights and obnoxiously loud flashbulb clacks.
From New York Times ● May 24, 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
They dipped their shoe polish beaks into the water and clacked and honked.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
Below, amid leafy plants and colorful lighting, employees at tech start-ups clacked away on MacBooks and sketched on whiteboards.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
Antlers clacked on antlers, cartilage snapped, and the breath of three thousand animals rose over the fence.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019
Tyrion pounded until the ornate bronze eye clacked open.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
We saw an egret and a rabbit, and when I heard a clacking sound, Mike brightened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
There's a reassuring clacking as the individual letters hit the blank white page in quick, noisy succession:
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
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
All the while, SBF sat totally still, occasionally clacking away at the laptop in front of him.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023
I sink to the ground on my hands and my good knee, chains clacking as I go.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
