clacking

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

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

Every time I hear the clacking of high heels, I am seized with trepidation.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins