- present participle of clack.
clacking
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Sonia-Wallace describes the clacking of the typewriter as his siren song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
There's a reassuring clacking as the individual letters hit the blank white page in quick, noisy succession:
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
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
Here the sky opens up, and she hears the clacking of branches: that’s the narrow stripe of gardens behind the Gallery of Paleontology.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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