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
"I see it - just two metres, three metres... click, clack, bang," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 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
Ben walks, his cowboy boots clack on the linoleum.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
Over the course of four decades, Oscar-winning sound designer Richard King has accumulated a library of tens of thousands of thuds, thwacks, clacks and other original recordings, yet he’s still always searching for something new.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
The German haunts her: in nightmares, he’s a spider crab three meters high; he clacks his claws and whispers One simple question into her ear.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
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
The pentominoes were yellow plastic and clacked against the kitchen table in a satisfying, decisive way.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
It requires the audience to bring their own bad vibes to shots of religious icons on the wall and long takes of Evy clacking on her laptop, unaware of a flickering light behind her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
There's a reassuring clacking as the individual letters hit the blank white page in quick, noisy succession:
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
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
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
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
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