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 room became dark and silent, though the clack of Sam’s shears, now nearer to the windows, could still be heard faintly from the garden.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
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
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
Antlers clacked on antlers, cartilage snapped, and the breath of three thousand animals rose over the fence.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019
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
There were no microphones, but in the quiet night air Abby’s spoons clacked with extra clarity.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2018
A few kids chased one another with sticks and clacked on roller skates at the rear of the pavilion.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
Dave and Jody Madore walked up Lincoln Street with their 8-year-old daughter, Cadence, her white heels clacking against the asphalt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
As the clacking electronic beats swept in and Lewis’ airy backing vocals signaled the crew was ready for liftoff, the crowd erupted in response.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
The din of clacking keyboards grew noticeably softer for a minute or two, as we all made an effort to gently swipe our keys subtly rather than banging them like we were auditioning for Stomp.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2023
Until her sister returned, Omakayas ran from one end of the field to the other, shouting, flapping her dad’s old shirt or clacking the sticks.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
