clangor

Example Sentences

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Even if noise cancellation is turned off, you won’t have to crank the volume on these to overcome the clangor of a subway car or the general loudness of a busy street.

From The Verge

It barely mattered, night or day, weekend or not, when the clangor of old metal cabinets being heaved into dumpsters would invade Michael Riley’s Manhattan apartment, disrupting all manner of peace.

From New York Times

From upstairs came a steady clangor, to which Ana was unwaveringly attuned, but paying particular attention whenever the noise briefly subsided.

From Seattle Times

As a teenager, he fashioned literal sound sculptures out of scrap metal: Their windblown clangor, he hoped, would keep insects from his family’s crops.

From New York Times

On this splendidly dyspeptic song, Mr. Callinan, an Australian musician with a penchant for creative provocation, splits the difference between industrial clangor and disco slither.

From New York Times