clank

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

Inspired by the raw, noisy clank of Jeru the Damaja’s 1993 East Coast hit “Come Clean,” “Cell Therapy” was built on a swirl of dub-inflected noise and an icy piano riff.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

The watch went into the maw of the vacuum cleaner with a distressing clank that the maid did not even seem to hear.

From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo

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

Yet they can’t do any of this while Westbrook and his clanks and his complaining are allowed to create a sort of mud into which this shiny new car’s back tires are sinking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

After several loud clanks echoed through the ship, the computer reported success.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

“If they clanked, which a lot of them did.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

All 11 of her previous attempts had clanked away or rimmed out or missed altogether, a slump eerily reminiscent of the 0-for-10 start that struck unexpectedly against Minnesota on Jan. 30.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025

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

He smiled as another shell clanked into the dumpster.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

Broken chains clanked and clattered about his legs.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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 strength machines use electric motors to create resistance instead of physical weights, so there’s no clanking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

"So that means we're going to see lights and hear lorries and cars and clanking about," says Jenny Upson, 74, a Felixstowe Road resident for 17 years.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025

“You can hear them clanking ten leagues off” There were more, near as mad or worse: Lord Wobble- cheeks, the Drunken Conqueror, the Beastmaster, Pudding Face, the Rabbit, the Charioteer, the Perfumed Hero.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin