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
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
It's 18 January 1976 and the clack of the turnstiles at Kilcohan Park is non-stop as more than 6,000 people cram their way into the home ground of Irish club Waterford FC.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
The front door opens and footsteps clack across the foyer.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
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
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
Fans whirred and prayer beads softly clacked as they listened.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 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
He did rattle, Jon could hear it; the bones were strung together loosely, so they clacked and clattered when he moved.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
Case in point: When Oppenheimer climbs the Trinity test tower in the desert during a windstorm, King’s team added the sound of clacking cables and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Sound: the whirring and clacking of many machines.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
In the rhythmic clacking of the train and the stirring, peopled silence of the car, I feel cocooned.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
