clank
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The prison through which he is escorted is a maze of many gates, rusted metal barriers to movement that echo, with every thud and clank, the stymied processes of Soviet justice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
It’s already quite hot inside my shoebox apartment as the radiators clank away, drowning out my upstairs neighbor’s heavy footsteps with their cacophonous symphony.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
"It feels like a prison," he says as the gates clank shut behind him.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
“All is fair where you wear the crown,” snipes Gal Gadot’s evil queen, who wears slinky ballgowns made of obsidian shards that clatter and clank with every step.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
A voice came through the trees accompanied by the dull clank of a bell.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Mr. Rasmussen makes Douglass’s conversion vivid and persuasive; Mr. Rebeiro exposes its jurisprudential machinery with impressive precision, even when that machinery clanks a little.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
In the bloopers, he clanks about 20 beforehand.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
The barge also retains fixtures from Panto’s days: Patinated rigging blocks hang from the ceiling; a century-old bell clanks when the barge jerks.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Then suddenly, his jump shot clanks off the rim, and a teenager crashes the scene.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022
And loud clanks and hissing sounds erupted as once again the boat began to move.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
“If they clanked, which a lot of them did.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Mittelstadt’s goal, batted out of the air, clanked off the front of the mask of Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck, one of the league’s best goalies, off Jets defenseman Brenden Dillon and into the net.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024
LeBron James, amazing again with 16 points in the final dozen minutes, clanked a foolish three-point shot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2023
He smiled as another shell clanked into the dumpster.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
My shot clanked off the rim and headed straight for her face, but the girl’s reflexes were good and she caught the ball just before it smashed into her nose.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
As the din of clanking metal dims, the smell of grease and exhaust lingers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Coronado climbed a ladder up the pueblo walls in his clanking armor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The sound of clanking leg shackles could be heard moments before Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro walked into the door of a New York City courtroom for the first time.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
His first free throw went long, clanking off the back iron.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Game Time and Crunch Time engaged in a particularly sweaty and determined fencing match, their improvised swords—a fireplace poker and a snow shovel handle—whizzing and clanking.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
