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In a clip posted on Instagram, the German relay team are jumping up and down in celebration when suddenly Strelow's bronze medal comes loose and a metallic clang echoes through the room.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

Bee Wilson’s own painful memories were triggered by the clang of a heart-shaped baking tin falling to the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The first American pope has been a font of endless, odd connections to the New World that clang against the public perception of the ancient Catholic Church.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025

“What did I want to do?” she asked, as the clang of a trolley car rang from the K Street Mall below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024

Bells clang from the lake and flashing lights glint through the trees, then new streams of water burst onto the flames from what must be a fire boat.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Its closing track, a harmonically suspended instrumental titled “The Brazilian,” flirted with the avant-garde by repeating the same anti-melody, anchored on a jungle of percussive clangs and hyperkinetic Simmons drum rolls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

MPs may find the clangs irritating but they should be grateful they weren't working in the Canadian Parliament in the 1980s.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024

She sings about irreversible events, like shipwrecks and spilled milk, amid plinks, clangs, crashes, swooping strings and sampled screams, nonchalant amid the non sequiturs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

It’s a fun, loose record stuffed with twisting and vibrating electronics that shifts tonally from pop-heavy melodies to erratic heavy clangs, as Smith’s voice wriggles around from gargled snarl to smoothed-out croon.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2020

It clangs, hitting the bottom of my trash can.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

Pots clanged and oil sizzled inside the London kitchen of Syrian chef Imad Alarnab, as the former refugee who fled his country's civil war recalled hosting King Charles III.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

When the ball clanged off the bright yellow pole, Judge raised his right hand toward the sky and tossed his bat to the ground, as bedlam erupted all around him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

Then came a month of more misses than makes, with a botched extra-point attempt against the Buffalo Bills and a 26-yarder that clanged off the right goalpost in New England.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

Jason Heyward turned on a 100 mph fastball and clanged it off the Roberto Clemente Wall for a double in the second inning.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

It clanged against the marble with a satisfying crack, carving a chunk out of the figure’s swirling robe.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

She’s talking on a sunny morning on the leafy rooftop of a five-star hotel in Paris, with views of the Centre Pompidou and bells clanging from a 16th-century church nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The rhythmic clanging of hammers on bronze echoes through the Istanbul workshop where three craftsmen are landing blows with astonishing precision to transform featureless metal discs into highly prized handcrafted cymbals.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Yet, Fire Island as a concept produces nothing more than a toy monkey clanging its cymbals in my brain.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

He remembers the clanging of metal and the high-pitched whining of steam, as well as the fear of gas leaks.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025

Then one morning Nat wakened suddenly to hear bells clanging and men shouting.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham