clack

Example Sentences

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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

“Let’s go, let’s go,” Barraza says, striding through the halls, each clack of his leather boots ringing out like an act of defiance to a society that has long rejected people like him.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024

The monkeys might clack the stones together in their hands, for instance, or pick them up and drop them over and over again.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

Harriet was in a stupor most of the time, deaf to the laughter, the dancing and the singing, deaf to the clack of the bones, the beat of the juba.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry